All Things Analytics

A random collection of ideas with a specific focus on the human dimension

Jun 2, 2016

Is collaborative analytics the next frontier for social and collaboration systems?

Information overload has consumed us for more than a decade, spawning a generation of social, collaboration, search, and analytics solutions to help the knowledge worker more effectively…

Marie Wallace

May 16, 2016

The Data Supply Chain will become the greatest enabler or inhibitor of a cognitive world.

“Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink”, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Marie Wallace

Apr 29, 2016

Analytics: Intrusive or Empowering?

Over the last decade I’ve had the privilege to work on two topics for which I am absolutely passionate; the democratization of analytics and the ethics of data science. To many people these two topics may seem to be at odds with each other. On one hand I’m trying to…

Marie Wallace

Mar 18, 2016

The malignant side of social analytics :-(

A few weeks ago my good friend Susan Etlinger shared with me a scary article, called China’s ‘Social Credit’ System: A Frightening Use of Big Data and written by Bernard Marr, where he described new plans from the Chinese government to build a “social…

Marie Wallace

Feb 22, 2016

From e-mail to social, why’s it so tough?

Since the advent of social there has been so much talk about “the death of e-mail”, but as we all know it ain’t dying and in fact by many counts is growing in popularity with websites like www.emailisnotdead.com sharing a variety of stats on the subject…

Marie Wallace

Feb 6, 2016

Have we been neglecting the Data Scientist?

For those of us that work in the world of collaboration, social business, or whatever you want to call it, we spend a lot of our time focused on facilitating collaboration around content; helping people share their ideas, build and sustain community, run…