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Tools and those who enable their misuse

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To get a data architect I know worked up, just ask him about how customers end up buying the wrong tools.

How about sales people who push federation tools on those who actually need data warehouses?

“It all sounds extremely sexy,” says my source, who works for a major business intelligence vendor and whom I can’t identify. “You have a lot of people who exaggerate their ability to combine data to provide business solutions. … They don’t prototype, they don’t profile, they don’t actually think about the problem or do testing or even send some high school data analyst out with Excel to put something together that [the customer] might want.… Read the rest “Tools and those who enable their misuse”

Hoping for Citizen 2.0

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I like the sound of Government 2.0: Collaborate with citizens online and you can change government from a sewer-dwelling raccoon into a purring housecat.

Social media lets us try for a kind of politics that was impossible until now. I hope for great results. For many, Government 2.0, or “collaborative government,” will mean just “friending” a local cop. But in full flower, Government 2.0 can mean far better service, and far more government-and-citizen collaboration than ever before.

Even before we had social media, the glare of public attention was a proven antidote for bad politics. Citizens getting up their elbows in policymaking has always been another strong medicine.… Read the rest “Hoping for Citizen 2.0”

Stalking the why: selling visual analysis

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How do you show the value of visual analysis to business people? Dan Murray can show it in demos, but he keeps looking for the “magic dust” that explains in a snap.

He sees visual analysis as a key part of low-cost business intelligence at small- and medium-sized organizations — and he’s set out with evangelical zeal to provide as many of these firms as he can with BI.