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Seth Grimes is an analytics strategist with Washington DC based Alta Plana Corporation. He consults on data management and analysis systems.
December 30, 2009
This time of year, we pundit types like to post our summations of the past year's developments, our Best Of lists recapping our own work, and our industry predictions for next year, for 2010. Not me, not this year. I will, however, post on the year ahead... for me, on BI and analytics topics that I plan (or at least hope) to cover in the next few months.
I wrote the first of the topics I'll list on my office whiteboard probably three years ago, back when I was learning about streaming data (now, more commonly, complex event processing), and maybe its time has finally come:
1. Data Uncertainty and Provenance
This item would look at work by researchers including Stanford University's Jennifer Widom. Next are a recurrent data miner's question,
2. Is More Data Better?
and a topic suggested by my friend Mitch Wyle, who works in Engineering Excellence at Microsoft,
3. Information Destruction
This item would explore what to do when data becomes what a developer would call cruft, but how do you tell when it's at that stage? Next, I think I have a juicy topic in
4. Misreading the Numbers
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