Thoughts, musings, and, hopefully, not too many redundancies on the world of business data. If you missed the irony in the previous sentence, you may struggle with my writing style.
I don’t think I will ever forget the first time that I made a presentation at work. It was just over a decade ago, I was just a few months into my employment at a company where I would work for the next eight years, and I was on the hook to present a new [...]
August was a little crazy for me:
I changed jobs — left Nationwide to become Director, Measurement and Analytics at Resource Interactive — which is 1000% the “right” move, but meant for a hectic/stressful month
Back-to-school time, which was more than just getting our kids ready — my wife ran our two sons’ elementary school’s entire supply [...]
The Austin-based division of a qualitative and quantitative research company is looking for someone with SPSS expertise — they’re pretty flexible as to how the work gets set up, and there is not a requirement that the role be based in Austin. Below are the requirements:
Minimum require (per project): 15-20 hours a week
Software Skills (in order of [...]
I stumbled across a post by Don Campbell (CTO of BI and Performance Management at IBM — he was at Cognos when they got acquired) today that really got my gears turning. His 10 Red Hot BI Trends provide a lot of food for thought for a single post (for one thing, the post only lists [...]
Blogrolls, blogrolls, blogrolls. I realized over the weekend that the blogroll(s) on my site were wildly out of date — they reflected some great blogs…but not exactly the ones that I really follow and read most consistently these days.
So, I updated that. But, in the process, I decided to re-open a nasty can of worms [...]
I wrote a post last week about PowerPoint and how easy it is to use it carelessly — to just open it up and start dumping in a bunch of thoughts and then rearranging the slides. That post wound up being, largely, a big, fat nod to Garr Reynolds / Presentation Zen. Since then, I’ve [...]
Slightly off-topic for this blog, and a little dated, but worth sharing nonetheless.
During a discussion with a couple of my co-workers today, I made an observation about how my current company, as well as one of the major consulting firms we use, seem to really be in love with PowerPoint as the documentation/presentation/communication/general-purpose tool of [...]
I got pinged this morning by a colleague who is looking for someone with marketing chops (preferably B2B) and fairly advanced analytic skills for a 4-6 month engagement. The engagement would require heavy travel on the front end, and the main deliverable is a model that the client can use to assess the effectiveness of [...]
How’s that for a book title? Would it pique your interest? Would you download it and read it? Do you have friends or co-workers who would be interested in it?
Why am I asking?
Because it doesn’t exist. Yet. Call it a working title for a project I’ve been kicking around in my head for a couple of years. In [...]
I got tagged for the “Seven things…” meme by Chris Wilson.
The rules:
Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
Let them know they’ve been tagged.
So, on to [...]
Three things I know: 1) My wife got the raw end of the deal when she married me, 2) I blog because it keeps my e-mails shorter, and 3) If you have the urge to talk about data usage in business, I'll do so until long after that desire has passed (for you). If you want to know more, check out my About Gilligan on Data page.