Playful insights about how to make technology work in business.

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

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