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Archives: July2009

• Interview Karen Lopez Data Modeling Expert

  Here is an interview with Karen Lopez who has worked in data modeling for almost three decades and is a renowned data management expert in her field. Data professionals need to know about the data domain in addition to the data structure domain – Karen Lopez Ajay- Describe your career in science. How would you [...]

• Interview John Sall Founder JMP/SAS Institute

  Here is an interview with John Sall, inventor of SAS and JMP and co-founder and co-owner of SAS Institute, the largest independent business intelligence and analytics software firm. In a free wheeling and exclusive interview, John talks of the long journey within SAS and his experiences in helping make JMP the data visualization software of [...]

• Interview Jim Harris Data Quality Expert OCDQ Blog

  Here is an interview with one of the chief evangelists to data quality in the field of Business Intelligence, Jim Harris who has a renowned blog at http://www.ocdqblog.com/. I asked Jim about his experiences in the field on data quality messing up big budget BI projects, and some tips and methodologies to avoid them. No [...]

• Interview Eric Siegel, Phd President Prediction Impact

  An interview with Eric Siegel, Ph.D.President of Prediction Impact, Inc. and founding chair of Predictive Analytics World. Ajay- What does this round of Predictive Analytics World have —–which was not there in the edition earlier in the year. Eric- Predictive Analytics World (pawcon.com) – Oct 20-21 in DC delivers a fresh set of 25 vendor-neutral [...]

• Interview Gary D. Miner Author and Professor

  Here is an interview with Gary Miner, Phd who has been in the data mining business for almost 30 years and a pioneer in healthcare studies pertaining to Alzheimer’s diseases. He is also co author of “the Handbook of Statistical Analysis and  Data Mining Applications”. Gary writes on how he has seen data mining change [...]

• Interview John Moore CTO, Swimfish

  Here is an interview with John F Moore, VP Engineering and Chief Technology Officer, Swimfish a provider of business solutions and CRM. A well known figure in Technology and CRM circles, John talks of Social CRM, Technology Offshoring, Community Initiatives and his own career. Too many CRM systems are not usable. They are built by [...]

• Interview Peter J Thomas -Award Winning BI Expert

  Here is an in depth interview with Peter J Thomas, one of Europe’s top Business Intelligence expert and influential thought leaders. Peter talks about BI tools, data quality, science careers, cultural transformation and BI and the key focus areas. I am a firm believer that the true benefits of BI are only realised when it [...]