Expand Your Data Focus
Looking at the importance of external data sources.
Tag: Twitter
Frenemies and the Age of the Platform
In my first Ignite talk, I stress the importance of getting comfortable with being uncomfortable.
Visualizing Twitter
What did Twitter look like in 2009?
Maybe I Am a Social Media Expert
Reevaluating a term that I truly despise.
Big Data and Teenage Sex
Yes, one has a great deal to do with the other.
Social Media and the Fourth V of Big Data
In order to benefit from Big Data, we need to embrace uncertainty.
Why Big Data Is Like Porn
It isn’t terribly easy to define, much like a few other subjects.
Post #500: In Defense of the Big Idea
On merits of big ideas in a culture that emphasizes the tactical.
The Social Data Police
A post on catty ex-clients and how Amazon uses data to improve its review of reviews.
The Gradually Closing Platform Strategy
Facebook and Twitter keep on closing their platforms. This is no accident.
My New Book
Analytics: The Agile Way—my eighth book—is out.
Featured Talk: How to Create a Culture of Analytics
A 50-minute talk about Big Data and what we can learn from Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, and Google.
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