Blog & Articles

I realized that a large percentage of the people I talked to who are serious about making use of data to improve the world are also Instant Pot cooks, aka Potheads. Here are two of my recipes. Please share yours to @DanWoodsEarly and I will do a roundup.   Mushroom Risotto Ingredient Standard 1.5 x […]

March 8, 2018

Strata is so deep and so wide and so tall: how can you get your arms around it and find what you’re interested in? Watch this video to understand how Dan is creating a framework you can use for understanding all the vendors’ offerings and finding what will work for you.

March 7, 2018

Dan explains why he’s excited about Strata San Jose 2018. He talks about what he’s interested in and some of the vendors related to his interests. He discusses research missions and product profiles he’s working on and describes as the practical value you will get from them.

March 7, 2018

These layers of the analytics stack provide categories for each of the capabilities an analytics platform needs to create productized analytics applications.

March 6, 2018

For a long time, I’ve been interested in why it is that larger companies, like Google and Facebook, that have nearly limitless resources and technology infrastructure, are all so seriously focused on pruning their technology portfolios at all levels. This focus contrasts sharply with how I believe the rest of us, businesses of more modest […]

February 27, 2018

For many businesses, legacy app migrations are becoming an increasingly important issue when they examine their technology portfolios. Companies have the desire to move these applications, which are vital to their operations, off their existing infrastructure and to the cloud to ensure the applications can continue to provide value in the modern world. But this […]

February 22, 2018

Companies need to guard against cyber threats. But how? This infographic examines the six essential features of cybersecurity, and how each one functions to keep your business secure.

February 2, 2018

To support the research mission Saving Your Data Lake, we’re speaking with various companies to capture their perspectives on why and how data lakes fail. Arcadia Data has experience using data inside the data lake in a new way that allows analysts to interact directly with data in what they call a data native mode […]

January 31, 2018

Companies crave analytics. Without enough time, or a team of data scientists to whip up a custom analytics product from scratch, many are turning to “off the shelf” productized analytics. But with so many products on the market, how do you know which productized analytics will properly feed your business? This mouth watering infographic takes […]

January 30, 2018

To support the research mission Saving Your Data Lake, we’re speaking with various companies to capture their perspectives on why and how data lakes fail. During our conversations with Podium Data, we discussed three main failure modes of data lakes: Polluted data lakes A polluted data lake occurs when many pilot projects with many tools […]

January 30, 2018