There are Little Myths and Big Myths. Little Myths are untrue, but they only keep us from doing something that might otherwise be valuable. For example, until the 19th Century people thought tomatoes were poisonous because they are related to deadly nightshade. But the only bad thing this little myth caused was less-delicious salads and [...]
Tag Archives: Analytics
Big Data and Data Scientists
It is difficult to read many articles on Big Data without running into the need for data scientists. Data Scientist is the relatively new term for people who can work between end users and data to make sense of it. The breadth of articles describing the characteristics of data scientists is quite mind-boggling. They have some or [...]
Chiliad and Privacy
At Chiliad, we are obssessed about information privacy – it is a consideration in everything we do, and it is built into the architecture of our software. Because it is not bolted on, everything our software does enforces privacy policies. We are a data analysis company, not a data collection company. Here are some of [...]
The Reality of Data Center Consolidation
At Chiliad, we believe improving productivity and helping reduce costs is vitally important. We hope our solutions make a significant contribution to both of those imperatives. This leads me to the topic of data and data center consolidation—one of the major drivers behind these cost and productivity initiatives. We think priorities about data and potential data center [...]
The Five Challenges to Finding Meaning in Structured Data
Relational database systems are a necessary part of most organizations. Complex schemas are designed and implemented in order to meet specific application needs. Although such structured data is required for day to day functioning, there is no scalable way to search and analyze across all the data elements of the complex schema. In order to find [...]
Putting the Evidence in Evidence-Based Medicine
Just a few days ago, Oracle got quite a bit of attention from it’s report, From Overload to Impact: An Industry Scorecard on Big Data Business Challenges, a report on the state of big data in the enterprise. This survey of over 300 C-level executives in North America revealed a general lack of preparedness to leverage the explosion of [...]
What’s an Analytic?
You are probably hearing the phrase “Big Data analytics” frequently these days. The problem is the term “analytic” (or “analytics”) often refers to quite different things. Many companies are positioning themselves as a provider of “Big Data analytics,” but that doesn’t mean they all do the same thing. A few examples of the variety: Company A: [...]
