Many IT companies and consultants define three ways to present business intelligence data.
In an ‘unstructured investigative’ environment you build a database of information that is available to specialist staff. These analysts use the data to answer one-off or infrequent business questions. Analysis techniques include visualisation, data mining and modelling. The quality of analysis often depends [...]
Just a reminder that the Oz-IA conference is approaching fast…
Earlybird registrations are open now, and close next Tuesday 9 September.
Earlybird registrations are A$660, or A$550 if you quote the discount code MR0243. Register online at the conference web site.
The conference will be held in Sydney, on the weekend of 20-21 September.
Who should attend?
Designers of navigation, [...]
M’colleague Michael asked this week whether the Information Futures Commission has identified any recent-ish equivalents to itself at other universities.
A related question has come up several times in the last couple of months. When we ask a senior stakeholder for an opinion about what issues the Commission should tackle, the response is often,”Well, what are [...]
The project I’m working on has been running for 2.5 months now, and we have reached an important milestone.Inspired by one of Scott Berkun’s diagrams, last week the team noodled out a diagram showing our consultation process and where it’s leading. (Click the image below to see a larger version, or keep reading for a [...]
To tag or not to tag: that is the question.
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous folksonomy,
Or to take arms against the wisdom of crowds;
And by opposing classify them. To tag; to catalogue;
No more; and by a taxonomy to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That comprehension [...]
