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The systems perspective on the Spitzer scandal

March 11, 2008

Why did New York governor Eliot Spitzer ever pay more than $100 for a call girl? That’s what scientists at a state-funded research lab freaked out about when the news broke yesterday. To them the scandal was that the rest of the money could have gone to science.

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What a recession might mean for business intelligence

January 25, 2008

BI was made for turbulent times, wasn’t it? At least the handful of consultants I talked to this week think so. There seems to be not a shred of fear among them. I’m writing the story for TDWI.

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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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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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