Ken Rona tweeted earlier today about a subject which stuck a chord. He was writing about the difference between a business analyst and data analyst (or data scientist as they are increasingly called). I wanted to expand on the idea as It is important to distinguish between the two roles. I have seen a lot [...]
Archive for the ‘Visualization’ Category
Business Analyst Vs. Data Scientist
Posted in Analytics, Analytics Culture, Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Visualization on June 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Decision Support to Challenge Property Taxes
Posted in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Visualization, tagged decision support tools on June 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The central thesis of my work for last few years has been focusing on the rise of integrated decision support systems which combine data, analytics and visualization to solve a very specific problem extremely well. These systems are usually prescriptive (instead of predictive) in nature and prove to be game changers in their space. I [...]
Standing on the shoulders of giants: Week of 1/24/2001
Posted in Analytics, Data, Data Mining, Visualization, tagged tweets on January 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting stories on information & decisions that influenced my thinking and were tweeted by me: Extending the value of operational #data to serve your customers. Netflix ISP comparison http://tinyurl.com/4whjd3o Coal economics and computer chips. Demand driver for need for more #analytics http://bit.ly/f6Hme2 Excellent paper for #analytics practitioners on customer lifetime value and RFM models http://bit.ly/dkdkaa [...]
Predictive Analytics: 8 Things to Keep in Mind (Part 5)
Posted in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Industry Perspective, Visualization, tagged decision making, History of Medicine, predictive analytics on March 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Theme 5: Good data visualization leads to smarter decisions. The above visualization has arguably saved more lives than all predictive analytics initiatives combined. It is visualization created in 1854 by Dr. John Snow. As Miles Dowsett has written, In 1854 London was the biggest city the world had ever seen, and was literally drowning in [...]
IRS Internal Migration Data and Housing Bubble
Posted in Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data, Data Mining, Visualization, tagged data.gov, new data on February 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Earlier this week, I suggested a potential business application of IRS’s internal migration data for a moving and relocation company. Folks at Neilsen Claritas just found a far more interesting correlation which should have driven a lot of business decisions. They note: Today’s presence of underwater mortgages, or homes with negative equity, seem to be [...]
About the blog
Posted in Analytics, Data, General, Integration, Visualization, tagged decision support tools, General, prediction on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I believe that the next wave of productivity improvement in companies is going to come from investment in decision support tools. In our economy almost all workers are now knowledge workers. However unlike the workers of the industrial era, we still do not have the right set of tools to support our knowledge workers. We [...]
