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BI haiku

May 21, 2008 by Ted Cuzzillo

“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.

Have you got one? Post it as a comment.

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  1. Si Staffers says

    July 27, 2008 at 6:01 pm

    extract from your systems
    leave overnight to churn
    predict the future
    🙂

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