Businesses have been talking about the ‘data driven enterprise’ for a while and now they are excited about the Citizen Data Scientist. The idea that business users without statistical training will conduct data science is scary to any formally trained statistician.

Digital disruption is creating unforeseen events, such as new competitors, products and services that threaten the performance and positioning of consolidated players. Big data and analytics prove themselves, through successful user cases, as the answer to intercept the demand, prevent churn, draw an integrated view of the customer, manage fraud and reinvent the offer.

Big Data. If somehow you've made it to this website and have not heard the term since it first gained momentum toward becoming a popular term at least a decade and a half ago, I really don't know what to say.

Sometimes it seems as if every tech pro has a story about a boss who insisted that debugging code could be done in an hour, or that fixing a certain error wouldn’t result in five new ones. This guy didn’t have any sort of technical background, but he nonetheless knew how tech pros should do their jobs.

No one questions that the Hadoop/Spark ecosystem can yield business-changing insights. Yet few seem willing to face up to the sorry state of big data security

You might think the need for coding skills applies only to programmers, but that is far from the case. This popular STEM skill has found its way into nearly every industry and is quickly becoming a skill.

Do you talk to your computer or smartphone? Just a few years ago, that question would have been absurd. But with advances in natural language processing, the likelihood is that you have asked your phone to send a text or search the web for something within the last day.

Because of many million more sensors, faster computers and better resolution satellite imagery producing vast swathes of data, we now know much more about Hurricanes than ever before.  In fact typically we see them around a week earlier than just ten years ago.  Yet due to the vast complexity of weather interactions and their near perfect chaos, we’ve made little progress on predicting the path. So we now have a week longer to be anxious.