Using a SWOT Analysis to Advance Your Tech Career Leslie Stevens-Huffman, October 9, 2017 7 min read The problem is that most career-planning tools don’t help you understand your position relative to your...
Are Companies Really Using Apache Hadoop? Nick Kolakowski, December 14, 2015 3 min read These days, it seems impossible to have a discussion about Big Data without mentioning Apache Hadoop, the open-source...
SXSW: Nate Silver Discusses Data Bias, Strangeness of Fame Nick Kolakowski, March 11, 2013 7 min read Nate Silver speeds through his keynote. AUSTIN, TX—Nate Silver feels a little odd about his fame. That’s not...
Buffalo Bills Latest NFL Team to Embrace Data Analytics Nick Kolakowski, January 2, 2013 3 min read Can data-analytics software win a Super Bowl? That’s what the Buffalo Bills are betting on: the NFL team will...
A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers Jeff Cogswell, November 26, 2012 21 min read Buried somewhere in these 500 pages is the solution to your current issue. This is the story of the comparison that...
SAS Updates Text Analysis Software Nick Kolakowski, October 8, 2012 3 min read A solid text-analysis software platform can mine insight from a lot of different things, but not a stack of actual...
Does Business or IT Drive Data Governance? Nick Kolakowski, October 5, 2012 4 min read Back in pre-silicon times, "data governance" meant cleaning old records out of the filing cabinets. Today, it's an...
1010data Launches Analytical Dataspace Nick Kolakowski, September 19, 2012 3 min read 1010data wants Analytical Dataspace participants to include data consumers, data providers, "third-party integrators,"...
