By Ted Cuzzillo (Latest edit )
Qlik’s director of data literacy Jordan Morrow saw validation of his program soon after he took the job: His new series of online modules, he reports, rose to four of the top 10 downloads within the first couple of months.
None of the modules were easy.… Read more...
By Ted Cuzzillo (Latest edit )
Qlik could have forgotten the tired slogans — such as “data is the new currency” — at the recent Qlik Qonnections and gone straight for the what makes Qlik stand out. That starts with their tastiest, chewiest morsel: their apparently serious campaign for data literacy.… Read more...
By Ted Cuzzillo (Latest edit )
Robert Kaplan writes about foreign policy, but his warning about connectedness also cuts into our dreams of free-flowing connectedness at home in cities.
From Sunday’s New York Times review of his new book, The Return of Marco Polo’s World:
… Read more...After the Cold War, many of us naively assumed that the communications revolution would be the vehicle through which the West would spread its values, attitudes and tastes to the rest of the world.
By Ted Cuzzillo (Latest edit )
Cisco’s plumbing will soon feed Teradata’s brains, according to last week’s announcement. That’s a no-brainer of a partnership, since everyone knows that Cisco’s good at data plumbing and Teradata’s good at data analytics. But the news release lets the interesting part go unexplained.… Read more...
By Ted Cuzzillo (Latest edit )
This week a longtime consumer of news, blogs, articles, whitepapers, and other content issued by the data industry said this to me.
… Read more...After reading stories about big data and data quality for years, I think you’ll agree that everything [the data business] has wanted to say, they’ve said.