by Shane Gibson | May 6, 2014 | Analytics, CloudBI
As you may have noticed we have launched Poli vs Poli, a micro website that shows a number of metrics based on tweets about New Zealand politicians. Somebody asked me the other days where the Idea came from. We had the idea a few years ago before the last election....
by Shane Gibson | Mar 21, 2014 | Analytics
When I was working in Presales at Oracle, doing penance by trying to sell Oracle Applications, I got my butt constantly whopped by Peoplesoft. Why? Sex Sells! Yes they had a few features we didn’t (date effective GL hierarchies were a killer), but we had...
by Shane Gibson | Feb 26, 2014 | Analytics
It’s that time of year again when Gartner publish their BI related magic quadrants and the vendors all blog. tweet and email the good news of where they sit. This year Gartner released a new quadrant, focussed on Advanced Analytics vendors. Here it is: ...
by Shane Gibson | Feb 21, 2014 | Analytics, RapidMiner
If you ever try and install RapidMiner on a mac, you might get this little error when starting its engines: Exception in thread “main” java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/rapid_i/LauncherJVMOptionBuilder : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0 To...
by Shane Gibson | Mar 21, 2013 | Analytics, Business Intelligence
Quick overview on SAS Visual Analytics from the SAS Software Youtube channel below. Excuse the number of times they say daaaattaaaa and the word Billion (and no thats not the price 😉 Interesting bits I picked up: It automatically picks the most suitable...
by Shane Gibson | Mar 17, 2013 | Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Integration
SAS has been around for a long time and you have to admit it has been a very successful company announcing USD $2.8 billion in revenue lately, while remaining privately owned and focussed on delivering Analytics and related Business Intelligence software. But...
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