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Smart Data Collective
http://smartdatacollective.com/
Smart Data Collective is an enterprise community and collaborative blog covering BI and data analysis.
Recent Posts
A Very Good Year
SmartData Collective began life in the fall of 2007, under the sponsorship of Teradata, joining the other “collaboration” sites that make up the Social Media Today family. As we near the end of SmartD......
Early Indications December 2009: Yet Another Predictions Issue
In this last week of 2009, it's scary to think that it was a full ten years ago that the IT profession was holding its collective breath as midnight January 1, 2000 approached. Apart from spooking u......
Google should open source what actually matters: their search ranking algorithm
Websites live or die based on how a small group of programmers at Google decide their sites should rank in Google’s main search results. As the “router” of the vast majority of traffic on the interne......
Predicting the Future
This time of year always finds me in reflective mood, contemplating the year-not-quite-yet-behind us - what I might have done differently, or better - and so the invitation to travel to Finland and t......
BI Reports, Data Quality, and the Dreaded Design Review
One of many discussions I heard over Thanksgiving turkey was, “How could the government have let the financial crisis happen?” To which the most frequent response was that regulators were asleep at ......
No Shortcuts: Invest in Learning – There’s no Free Lunch
In addition to the natural tendency to assume that you do not to ask for directions, i.e., training or knowledge transfer from experienced people, with today’s economy enterprises have slashed traini......

