Next Wave of Business Intelligence: Prospering from Discovery Analytics
Recently, I came across a review of the book “Average Is Over - Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation” by Tyler Cowen that highlights how the global labour market is changing...
View ArticleNSW Government Heading for the Cloud
Welcome to my first Teradata Blog, OK in reality it is my first blog ever! Since graduating from University many years ago (let’s just say last millennium) I have been involved in roles that centred...
View ArticleWhy Your Business Needs a Data Discovery Solution
The possibilities offered by the new analytic environments are just staggering. However, as a former Head of Business Analytical services for a number of large institutions, I can appreciate the...
View ArticleBig Data is not Hadoop – Part 1
Part 1 – History of Data Management Let’s plot the advance of Data Management through the years; the axes (plural of axis; not my fault) will be Volume (self explanatory, but think logarithmic scale)...
View ArticleBig Data is Not Hadoop – Part 3
Part 3 – If Hadoop is not Big Data, what is? In Part 1 we let history show us that the world has changed with Big Data. We no longer need to carefully decide on a small portion of the data which will...
View ArticleData Investigations
Blood drops, textile remnants, gunshot residues – at first sight, the small hints that investigators of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” look for have little to do with a data scientist’s daily...
View ArticleWhy the Reports of the Death of the Relational Database are an Exaggeration
“The report of my death was an exaggeration.” – Mark Twain, 1897 Yes, I have been caught up in the same wave as many of us who live and breathe data daily. I research and explore the ever-growing list...
View ArticleTuning Into The Needs Of Your Customers
I am very much looking forward to the Teradata Summit Series in Sydney August 19 and Melbourne August 20. I’ll be speaking about big data and the impact it is having for organisations around the globe....
View ArticleHow Analytics is Leveling the Playing Field for the Consumer
At a recent business breakfast I was discussing future trends in data analysis with a senior member of the analytics team in a major financial services institution. The conversation turned to how...
View ArticleShould Your Organisation Reach for the Cloud?
In the recent O’Reilly paper by Mark Barlow studying the industry trends in Migrating Big Data Analytics to the Cloud , the survey data reveals some fascinating trends. Some of these are logical and/or...
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