Have A Great Internet-of-Things Easter!
There’s vast new amounts of data available for analytics thanks to the rise of cheap, easy, convenient sensors in every aspect of corporate and personal life. Here’s a quick, silly example of the future internet of things using an Easter Egg: What’s happening: inside the egg is a Twine device by Supermechanical: The Twine comes with a variety of sensors that you can program using a web interface and download to the device – here’s the... [Read More...]
Scrooge Didn’t Believe in Sentiment Analysis Either
I mentioned Ebenezer Scrooge, Charles Dickens’ fictional financier from A Christmas Carol, in a previous post on the importance of using new leading (rather than lagging) sources of data to improve company performance. Famously cold-hearted, tight-fisted and greedy, it’s a fair bet Scrooge didn’t care much about sentiment analysis. But social media analytics – mining social networks for publicly-available data about what people... [Read More...]
Teleportd: Big Data Meets Social To Detect Photo-Worthy Events
This week’s LeWeb London conference gave me the opportunity to catch up with Gabriel Hubert, co-founder of French startup Teleportd. Teleportd brings sophisticated analytics to real-time social data in order to detect real-world “happenings” – including concerts, rallies, and traffic accidents. The company sucks in over six million tweets each day, including geocoded links to photos. An “online density clustering algorithm” is used to... [Read More...]
Business Intelligence Best Practice Twitter #SAPChat
I will be the host of the next #SAPChat, an interactive panel discussion carried out entirely over Twitter. It’s scheduled for 9am PST / 18:00 CET on Wednesday February 29th, and the subject will be “Business Intelligence Best Practice”. We will be discussing how best to implement business intelligence projects successfully, with an emphasis on people-focused hints and tips rather than technical discussions. And with only 140 characters available,... [Read More...]
Products + Social = Better Products
Update: as part of this year’s Social Media Week, I hosted one of the sessions at a free one-day event held at SAP Palo Alto on February 15th. Accompanied by a star-studded lineup of guests (meet the panelists) we discussed how companies can make better products using social media — here’s a link to the recorded panel session: Social+Products=Better Products. In this post, I’d like to share some ideas about why I believe that... [Read More...]
Join Us For Social Media Day in Palo Alto on Feb 15th
Interested in Social Media? (and everybody should be, because these techniques are changing EVERY business process, not just marketing). Come and join us! As part of this year’s Social Media Week, SAP Palo Alto will be hosting a free, day-long non-SAP-focused event on Wednesday, February 15th with a glittering array of industry experts discussing a variety of key social topics: Just some of the participants: Maggie Fox, CEO... [Read More...]
Twitter Adds Analytics
Via Mashable, here are a couple of the screenshots of the upcoming free analytics for Twitter users. Read More →
Why Go To The Office Anyway?
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Season’s Greetings with Xcelsius!
Here is a season’s greetings dashboard that shows off some of the latest features of Xcelsius 2008 SP3. Tweet the color you’d like to see in the garland. The dashboard updates every 30 seconds. How long Twitter search takes to recognize the tweet can be pretty variable – but most of the time, it’s less than a minute. How it works: I set up an Excel XML Connection that grabs a feed from Twitter using the search term “#twitterlights”. The... [Read More...]
Real Real-Time Analytics
Here’s a great video from this weeks SAP Influencer Summit featuring the advantages of real-time, in-memory analytics. You can see the full list of recorded keynote sessions here (registration required). If you’re interested in business intelligence and analytics, you’ll find it mentioned in the presentations by Jim Snabe, Vishal Sikka, Marge Breya and John Wookey. The sessions featured interaction with Twitter very heavily, using the... [Read More...]
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