The Inconvenient Truth about Cloud Security
/This sponsored blog post for the Enterprise CIO Forum explains the inconvenient truth about cloud security is that we often choose, by default or with intention, convenience over security, especially with public-cloud-based services for mobile devices.
Read MoreBig Data and Quantified Self-Awareness
/If ignorance is bliss, what is digital abundance? This post posits a contrarian’s view on the quantified self movement, wondering if we are ready for the impact that big data will have on self-awareness.
Read MoreDQ-BE: Miss Information America
/An example of the challenge of data accuracy and the possible misinformation provided by key performance metrics inspired by the investigative reporting of the HBO satirical news show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
Read MoreDQ-BE: Scots give 110% at the Polls
/An example of the importance of performing some basic data quality checks before displaying information, inspired by a graphic about the recent referendum on Scotland’s independence from Great Britain.
Read MoreMaking Analytics Elementary with Watson
/This sponsored blog post for the IBM for Midsize Business program discusses Watson Analytics, a natural language-based cognitive service from IBM that can provide instant access to powerful predictive and visual analytic tools for businesses.
Read MoreAnalytics Across the Enterprise
/This sponsored blog post for the IBM for Midsize Business program highlights just three of the many key concepts covered in the book Analytics Across the Enterprise: How IBM Realizes Business Value from Big Data and Analytics.
Read MoreBig Data and Analytics in Three Verbs
/This sponsored blog post for the IBM for Midsize Business program summarizes a study by the IBM Institute for Business Value about how leading midsize businesses are converting big data and analytics into results.
Read MoreSturgeon’s Law, Big Data and the New Literacy
/While the era of big data inundates us with huge quantities of data in a wide variety of formats and questionable levels of quality, it may also be making us more literate in more ways.
Read More2014 International Data Quality Summit
/During this OCDQ Radio episode, conference co-chairs Joy Medved of IAIDQ and Melissa Hildebrand of ECCMA discuss the 2014 International Data Quality Summit (idqsummit.org) being held October 6-9 in historic Richmond, Virginia.
Read MoreIBM, Apple, and the Next Level of Enterprise Mobility
/This sponsored blog post for the IBM for Midsize Business program examines the effects on enterprise mobility caused by the recently announced IBM and Apple partnership.
Read MoreData-driven Illusions
/This post ponders how the focusing illusion, the illusion-of-truth effect, and the illusion-of-quality effect can affect the metrics your organization is relying on to support its data-driven business decisions.
Read MoreBusting 3 Big Data Myths for Midsize Businesses
/This sponsored blog post for the IBM for Midsize Business program takes on three common misconceptions about big data.
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