10 Themes Observed in Data & Analytics in 2017

2017 has come and gone. Looking back at the year, it was filled with promising…

5 Things Google Cloud Platform Didn’t Say Loud Enough at NEXT

Google has a great cloud, better or worse than other alternatives is a matter of great debate and perhaps a flamewar or two. One thing more people agree on is that Google is still figuring out how to best communicate about…

Looking forward at the Analytics Space in 2017

We’re 1.5 months into 2017 and I think I’m ready to predict what’s to come in…

Impressions From the 2017 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

The 10th Annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conference recently wrapped up, and it couldn’t have come at a more interesting time of convergence of new analytics findings and proliferation of analysis tools. The panels with the…

Sufficiently Advanced Technology: Visual Processing

Getting 1000 words out of a picture.

Evolving Landscape of Analytics on AWS

Far too many to share in this post, but, there were a lot of analytics related announcements…

The Model You Don’t Build May Be Your Best One

Models are all the rage right now, and why wouldn’t they be? Their applications and capabilities seem to double every year, the toolboxes keep growing, and you can’t throw a rock without hitting 10 articles written about their use cases every week…

Making the cloud work for “the little guy”

Adding AWS to your analytics platform is a route chosen by organizations big and…