Platforms
Not All APIs Are Created Equal
Examining one of the most pervasive platform myths.
Tag: Netflix
Posts on this topic examine the popular streaming companyโoften around how it uses data and tech to do amazing things.
Big Data
Big Data: Preventing Big Failures
Thoughts on avoiding the pitfalls of traditional IT projects.
Big Data
The Case for Proceeding Without a Data Scientist
Why it may be wise not to wait for one.
Big Data
Adding New Data Sources: An App-Like Future
What we can learn from the app mind-set.
Analytics
Building a Platform: Big Data Considerations
Organizations that embrace data and analysis will do far better than those that don't.
Big Data
How Platforms Lead to Big Data
The most successful companies today realize that data is critical to their success.
Big Data
Data-Based Design: Ignore at Your Own Peril
Highly technical design is becoming more data-driven, faster, and smarter.
Big Data
The Case Against a Data Center of Excellence
Thoughts on a centralized group of data experts.
Big Data
Book Review: Dataclysm
Thoughts on Christian Rudder's text. Two words: Buy it.
Big Data
Zappos Talk on The Visual Organization
I recently spoke to about 100 employees about my new book.
Analytics
To Store or Not to Store
Strategy without execution is meaningless.
Big Data
The Folly of the Perfect Prediction
Never conflate the terms better and perfect.
Big Data
HBR Webinar: The Visual Organization
60 minutes on the new book and the importance of dataviz.
Trends
Life Without Cable TV: One Month Later
What I've learned in the past 30 days.
Trends
Why I Cut the Cord
Thoughts on ending my nearly 20-year relationship with cable companies.
Technology
The Future of Retail and the Cloud Wars
The race for cloud-computing dominance is heating up.
Big Data
Between Two Fern-Like Plants: My VizWorld Interview
A chat at NAB in Las Vegas about Netflix, Twitter, and the importance of contemporary dataviz.
Analytics
Big Data, Risk, and The Matrix
How Neo's choice of pills relates to the tech topic du jour.