“Eat food, not too much, mostly vegetables.” That’s Michael Pollan’s haiku-like dictum for eating. Let’s have some faux haiku, or senryū, to describe business intelligence, defined broadly. That could take lifetimes to ponder, or at least a couple of fiscal quarters.
First, we must bow to the ancestors. The eldest and most revered is Charlie Varon, who with unknown accomplices enriched the world with haiku error messages. A more recent ancestor is Juice Analytics. Compared with them, we are but pale shadows.
So far, here’s what I have:
Refine past data,
put it in a box.
See patterns.
put it in a box.
See patterns.
Have you got one? Post it as a comment.
extract from your systems
leave overnight to churn
predict the future
🙂