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The Dashboard Delusion
Jan 2, 2026
The Dashboard Delusion

Most analytics projects fail because organizations build dashboards before defining what decisions they would make differently.

EB
Nov 13, 2018
Turn your data geeks into customer geeks

What would you do if you had so much data about your customers that you know could know (almost) everything about your customer when they contacted you?

EB
Nov 6, 2018
Opportunity Lost: Data Silos Continue to inhibit your Business

Proper data integration and management will help you spend less time sifting through data and more time divining insights from it.

EB
Oct 23, 2018
Customer Engagement: A Data-Driven Team Sport

Marketing data lakes help data analysts collaborate with customer-facing teams to predict behaviors, personalize offers, and improve engagement.

EB
Oct 9, 2018
Machine Learning Is Transforming Data Security

Machine learning will not replace humans in the security chain, but it can help IT professionals monitor data access and system security effectively.  

EB
Aug 9, 2018
Data Maturity before Digital Maturity

Along the path to digital maturity, your organization needs to reach data maturity in both organizational and technological aspects.

EB
Jun 10, 2015
More isn't always better

Make sure you have the tools and skills in place to analyze / use what you have before you go and add 'more' to the mix.

EB
Mar 18, 2014
Don't use your data this way

Last week, I wrote a post titled Big Data Starts with Data Management. In that post, I wrote: Starting with data management will help mitigate these risks

EB
Sep 11, 2013
A look at Twitter messages in 2012 mentioning $SPY and S&P500 Symbols

Cross Posted at TradeTheSentiment.com While working up my data analysis chapter of my dissertation, I came across some interesting tidbits of information

EB
Apr 18, 2013
Always Learning. Or: my attempt to improve my (horrid) programming habits

I'm the worlds worst developer. Really. I am. I don't follow best practices and my coding style is the oft-chided "brute force" method. I owe (blame?) my

EB
Mar 14, 2013
Context and Data

A few weeks ago I wrote about Big Data and Small Business. From that post, I wrote: As its defined, big data might be too big for small business, but the

EB
Jul 31, 2012
A quick analysis of the #CIO Twitter Stream – Twitter Quality vs Quantity?

An analysis of twitter messages using the #CIO hashtag and captured / analyzed for patterns and information.

EB
Jul 18, 2012
#CIO Twitter Stream Content Visualization

A visualization of the #CIO Twitter stream from data collected July 16 to July 18.

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