November 2007

Tech as a career is a “dead end”

November 28, 2007

The business intelligence author Tony Politano said this morning that technology as a career is a “dead end.” When I heard him say it, I knew it was my lead for next week’s story in BI This Week on BI careers.

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My latest for BI This Week: predictive analytics sits out Oracle OpenWorld

November 27, 2007

My latest for TDWI’s online newsweekly, BI This Week, appeared tonight. Analysis: Predictive Analytics and Oracle OpenWorld Predictive analytics seemed to sit it out at the recent Oracle OpenWorld, except for one recent Oracle acquisition.

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The debate over “useful” visualization

November 27, 2007

That winery of mid-’60s TV fame Italian Swiss Colony and its mascot “that little old winemaker, me” often seems to apply in surprising places.

A few weeks ago at a visualization conference, the business intelligence community’s leader in visualization design, Stephen Few <>, told the room full of dedicated visualizers to be more useful. Some took exception.

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BI This Week: Sacramento visualization conference

November 21, 2007

I attended the IEEE InfoVIS 2007 conference in Sacramento, held October 28-30, and wrote about it for TDWI: “Visualization: Just Look What’s Coming.”

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