Use Data, Not Your Gut Instinct

Two fun videos that portray why you should pay attention to the data, not to your gut feel, using sports metaphors – with links to online analytics of the sports stats yourself, on the ever-growing Experience SAP site. Baseball: “know it all – without being one” Play with the stats yourself at the Baseball section of the Experience SAP site. Rugby: “keep your mouth shut if you don’t have the data to back it up” Play with the stats... [Read More...]

ESP and Business Analytics

The New York Times reports that a respected psychology journal is due to publish a paper purporting to show “strong evidence” for extra-sensory perception: “A software program randomly posted a picture behind one curtain or the other — but only after the participant made a choice. Still, the participants beat chance, by 53 percent to 50 percent, at least when the photos being posted were erotic ones. They did not do better than chance on... [Read More...]

2010 Football World Cup Business Intelligence

There are only three matches left in this year’s World Cup, and the competition is wide open after a series of upsets have knocked out some of the big international players, including the winners of the last three world cup tournaments: Italy, France, and Brazil. To enhance your enjoyment of the game – or simply to see a real-life example of what you can do with business intelligence technology, check out the suite of tools offered as part of... [Read More...]