We’ll know more tomorrow when the jobs report is announced, but today’s report on America’s massive service sector – which make up about 90 percent of the economy – is sobering to say the least.
The Institute of Supply Management’s non-manufacturing index fell to a four-month low in April (53.5,…
The next time you have to get an MRI or CT scan you might not know it but if the equipment is made by GE it is phoning home. No, the actual scan data is still between you and your doctor, but the broad stats of when and where the scan was taken is reported back to GE. In the true spirit of the Internet of Things, everything has an IP address, even an MRI machine. The analysts at GE have created some interesting data visualizations. About 125,000 scans are taken each day around the world with their equipment, and you can see time series information and other interesting stats on their blog.
I had an epiphany today. The Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, was not written by people who fundamentally misunderstand how the web works. They understand all too well, and want to change it forever. Behind the almost unreadable (yet truly scary) text of SOPA (and its Senate doppelganger, PI…
Mitt Romney is casting the 2012 campaign as “free enterprise on trial” – defining free enterprise as achieving success through “hard work and risking-taking.” Tea-Party favorite Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina says he’s supporting Romney because “we really need someone who understands how…
- Big data gets even bigger
- Self-reliance is the new self-service
- The “Consumerization of Enterprise Software accelerates”
- Mobile BI goes mainstream
- Some companies start to get comfortable with social BI
- Companies explore the BI cloud
- Most jobs will require analytical skills… leading to talent shortages
- BI projects flourish under aligned IT & business
- Interactive data visualization becomes a requirement
- Hadoop gathers momentul — unstructured data isn’t going anywhere.
It sounds like companies will have to discover the fountain of money to be able to accomplish 2, 6, and 8 within an year.
Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
— Carl Sagan (via cwnl)
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If you’re a 21st Century Republican, EVERYTHING is a liberal conspiracy!
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