Test Your Decision-Making Skills!

Test Your Decision-Making Skills!

I sometimes sit in a café called “La Terrace” near my home in Paris. It’s next to the Metro stop Ecole Militaire, which is one of the closest stops to the Eiffel Tower. So each time I have my coffee and croissant, some of the 7 million or so visitors to the tower each year come out of the metro and consult this map of the 7th Arrondissement to try to help them figure out which way to go. Here’s a close up – the Eiffel Tower is at the top... [Read More...]

Great Examples of US Government BI Transparency

Great Examples of US Government BI Transparency

We’re clearly entering a new era in government transparency, and we can hope that allowing citizens to access information interactively through business intelligence functionality to spot inefficiencies and opportunities will be a big part of transforming the way the public sector works. In my previous post, I talked about how the American Recovery and Reinvestment act is perhaps the largest, most complex business intelligence application ever.... [Read More...]

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VERY cool #bigdata real-world event detection using #instagram, #twitter, etc http://t.co/p7tgnQV7 @spolu @gabhubert1 minute ago