This is the second in a four-part taxonomy of analytics based on how the analytic work product is used. In the first post of this series, I covered Strategic Analytics, or analytics that support the C-suite. In this post, I will cover Managerial Analytics: analytics that support middle management, including functional and regional line managers. At this level, questions and
Read moreConversations about analytics tend to get muddled because the word describes everything from a simple SQL query to climate forecasting. There are several different ways to classify analytic methods, but in this post I propose a taxonomy of analytics based on how the results are used. Before we can define enterprise best practices for analytics, we need to understand how
Read moreThis is the first of a two-part post on the current state of advanced analytics in Hadoop. In this post, I’ll cover some definitions, the business logic of advanced analytics in Hadoop, and summarize the current state of Mahout. In a second post, I’ll cover some alternatives to Mahout, currently available and in the pipeline. For starters, a few definitions.
Read moreIs this the year of Agile Analytics? Recent publications show growing interest in the application of Agile methods to analytics: Ken Collier, an Agile pioneer, tackles analytics in his aptly named new book Agile Analytics . A quick Google search surfaces a number of recent blogs and articles (here, here and here) Curt Monash recently published an excellent two-part blog
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