How do you handle online data? These days key strokes are logged. Activity on the web packaged and sent off to “friends” as notifications. Last week I attended a business intelligence seminar where the speaker railed against, the commoditization of data. He said, since all manufactured products now have bar codes, in turn sending out bits at every stop, sometimes streaming data non-stop. Then we were approaching a tipping point where each additional bit received will add less and less useful intelligence to the data set. He then drew the grave conclusion that business analysis, as we know it is dying. I am more optimistic than Mr. Speaker but his speech made me think about the other consumers of information out there. You and I. Continue reading →
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