The Fourth V- Veracity
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." - Mark Twain Various vendors verbalize the four Vs of data bigness, Volume, Velocity, Variety, »
Instrumenting Your Data for Real-Time Analysis
Creating a clean, maintainable and powerful dataset can be a real challenge, especially when collecting data from sources that are evolving. Many changes at the source »
Plato on Analytics, and Why Data != Knowledge
If Plato was a data scientist, he'd have a lot to complain about. In his classic masterpiece "The Republic", Plato writes about a group of prisoners »
SaaS Analytics Tools Will Not Scale with Your Success
Every year, we've seen the same SaaS analytics startup get funded by the same VCs over and over again. "X startup raises Y capital from Z »
Why Big Data is Not the Future of the Internet of Things (Yet)
It's been 20 years since the phrase "Internet of Things" was coined -- yet the industry hasn't quite lived up to its prophesied potential. IoT darling »
Audit Your Analytics
Behind most projects to integrate data into a company’s decision making is an ambition to improve your business. You want to find costly inefficiencies, lost »
Big Data in Little China
When we started consulting in China back in early 2011, the state of things were simply bizarre to a newcomer. In many ways, China has a »
