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Big Data: The Next Big Thing First a brief personal history of data warehousing and BI. In 1987, I started working with relational database systems when they were in their infancy. We tried to build OLTP and OLAP systems on...
this is a second note on the role of data scientist... some links to Harvard Business Review http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/01/the_great_data_scientist_in_fo.html http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/04/two_departments_for_data_succe.html
Twice this week I've encountered the newish title "Data Scientist" and have been struggling to understand what that role might entail. The first place I came across the title was in an article in the Teradata online magazine: http://www.teradatamagazine.com/v13n01/Features/Data-Science--Future-or-Fiction-/ The...
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change." Charles Darwin It's that time of year again... winding down 2012, ramping up 2013....
some crazy Australian rode a weather balloon into the upper stratosphere on the weekend and the from 75000 ft. jumped out. being the first person to skydive from space (or at least the outer atmosphere - as high as helium...
Does life surprize you or confuse you? The book, "The Black Swan," talks about events that come out of left field and surprise us. A great example is 911. Two things that baffled me about 911, the coordinated successful operation...
Jim, a friend of mine, was a summer student hired by the Federal Government to work in Kenora to work on implementing giving First Nations people the vote. This was an important initiative by the governement and Prime Minister Diffenbaker...
Graham Boundy and Harvey Gellman would often say that this book would have made a good article. Recently I read a peice that suggested expressing your ideas in a poem was much more efficient. So maybe often a book should...
Sometimes we are annoyed when someone takes a controversial position in a discussion or meeting. We want people to agree with our position and do not like contrary opinions. However often if we are open to listening we can learn...
Has anybody noticed I have not publish a blog since July 17th? If you missed me and would like to see more, please let me know by a comment or a Like.
Do you dismiss opinions that do not jibe with you view of the world? Do you consider that they may be seeing things from a different perspective? I find seeing the others point of view when is not alignned with...
So many meeting these days are held on the phone rather than in person around a table. How to manage effective meetings? In person meeting are challenge enough and often are not done well. Adding the complexity of a phone...
Why do we all have such difficulty listening to others? For me I often distracted by my thinking about what I am going to say next. I am thinking "How can I share my ideas" rather than find out what...
Many people have criticized business and engineering schools for not teaching any courses on how to wins friends and influence people. Tom Peters and Dale Carnegie come to mind. However the key success factor for people to be successful in...
When Dan Pink asked Tom Peters what was the most important principle from his book 'In Search of Excellence', he said without hesitation "A Bias for Action." Dan Pink thens asked what was the second of the eight and after...
When I was in high school and considering careers, I seriously considered going into medicine. I had a really good friend whose father was a doctor so I asked if I could talk to him. If I recall correctly one...
Some ideas from a writing coach's blog I follow. see http://www.publicationcoach.com/blog/ 1. Always start early. One of the best ways to make writing less onerous is to begin it as quickly as possible. As soon as I have an assignment...
Here are some suggestions from a newsletter I read. It has to do with dealing with email while writing a report, proposal, requirements document or memo. 1. Never try to write when you might receive ANY alert (either audio or...
As I got older, I have become more interested in my genealogy. However I have learned that the dates are less important than the family stories. I really did not learn many from my grandparents but wish I had asked...
From a book called "Instant Influence" I extracted the following six questions: Why might you change? (for yourself why might I change?) How ready are you to change -- on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 means "not...