Three Things You Should Know About the Hidden Data Economy

In every organization is a hidden data economy. The supply side comes from apps, devices, and sensors creating new observations and adding them to an ever-growing stock of data capital. The demand side comes primarily from analytics and AIs chewing on those datasets to improve actions and decisions across the firm. But most companies don’t […]

Another Convert To Bigdataism

Tom Davenport, research fellow at the MIT Center for Digital Business, makes a confession on page two of his new book Big Data At Work. He was a big data skeptic. A doubter. In fact, he says, he considered taking his previous books and just doing a global replace of analytics with big data and […]

Because Data Science

In a famous lecture, the great physicist Richard Feynman defined the key to science. “If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong.” He added that someone’s fame or credentials can’t make a wrong idea right. If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. Because science. From the earliest days of science, when it was still called natural […]