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- Advanced Analytics, Big Data and the Power of R: A Q&A Spotlight with David Rich, CEO of Revolution Analytics Summary
David Rich, CEO of Revolution Analytics, is interviewed by Ron Powell. They discuss how Revolution Analytics provides the "rules, tools and school" to enable enterprises to gain the analytic power required for analyzing big data.
by Ron Powell
- Public Policy and π Summary
Dr. Ramon Barquin explains how π and analytics are related, and encourages us to celebrate March 14 – National Pi Day.
by Dr. Ramon Barquin
- Hadoop Education is Vital to Big Data Analysis Summary
Alex Buttery is a guest contributor to Richard Herschel's Education Channel. In this article, he describes the rapidly growing need for skilled individuals in big data analysis and emphasizes that the best way to develop these skills is through higher education - if universities would only supply the necessary classes.
by Alex Buttery
- The Benefits of Commercial Analytics for Pharma: A Q&A with Peter Harbin of IMS Health Summary
In this Spotlight, Ron Powell talks with Peter Harbin, senior principal at IMS Health, about analytics for the pharma industry. Peter details the changes that pharma companies are experiencing and explains the business benefits of analytics that provide actionable intelligence.
by Ron Powell
- The Top Myths of Predictive Analytics Summary
Piyanka Jain dispels the top five myths of predictive analytics and explains how avoiding them can help your organization make better business decisions.
by Piyanka Jain, CEO of Aryng
- Is Inmon's Data Warehouse Definition Still Accurate? Summary
Ben Jiang examines Bill Inmon's definition of data warehouse to see if it is still accurate for data warehousing today.
by Bin Jiang, Ph.D.
- Big Data, Text and Relational Database Management Systems Summary
Bill Inmon explains why textual ETL is necessary in the big data environment in order to make textual data fit for analytical processing.
by Bill Inmon
- Workload-Driven Data Warehousing Summary
Krish Krishnan breaks down the types of workloads in a standard data warehouse and then explains how isolating workloads helps you leverage the infrastructure.
by Krish Krishnan