No More Burnt Toast Please!


The picture above is a great looking piece of toast – why is it so hard to accomplish? I am astonished at how many times I’ve ordered toast over the years at various restaurants or fast-food places and received a burnt piece of bread. It doesn’t seem to matter whether it comes with a scrumptious […]
Get Data Wisdom!


Data wisdom is the capacity to understand your business from the data’s perspective. The effectiveness of this wisdom is directly related to the level of omniscience of your data. What does this mean? I answer this with a question, “What does your data know? And what does it not?” Is your data fully aware of […]
Two Things to Consider when Doing Predictive Analysis


The typical approach to predictive analysis is to start up a new analysis process from scratch for any new business request that is made. For example, if a non-profit organization wanted to use time-series forecasting methodologies to predict future donation amounts, the analyst would gather operational data, determine the methodology to use, train the model […]