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What's with NoSQL and BI? Blog bit.ly/JhzP1V, white paper bit.ly/bi-nosql and my Rome seminar bit.ly/bi2Rome! 12:48 PM May 17th via TweetDeck
NoSQL and BI - what's the story? Blog bit.ly/JhzP1V, white paper bit.ly/bi-nosql and invite to Rome bit.ly/bi2Rome! 3:40 AM May 17th via TweetDeck
BI - business intelligence, intent, intuition, insight. Death by a thousand analytics - my blog: bit.ly/IvlADt 9:33 AM May 2nd via TweetDeck
Death by a thousand analytics - or why there's more to BI than analyzing data. My blog: bit.ly/IvlADt 6:59 AM May 2nd via TweetDeck
Excellent session from QlikView and @donalddotfarmer at #bbbt Thanks to Claudia, Dave and all. 11:35 AM Apr 27th via TweetDeck
RT @NeilRaden: #bbbt I worry about simple prediction. Like flying an airplane without only an altimeter but not airspeed indicator. Agree! 11:30 AM Apr 27th via TweetDeck
Would love to get on to the NDA ... #bbbt 11:11 AM Apr 27th via TweetDeck
@meneerharmsen You're welcome! All my papers are available freely at 9sight.com/resources.htm #bbbt 10:58 AM Apr 27th via TweetDeck
@meneerharmsen You're welcome! All my papers are available freely at 9sight.com/resources.htm 10:57 AM Apr 27th via TweetDeck in reply to meneerharmsen
QV users build apps - not dashboards. Hmmm - so what did they build before apps became cool? Sound like a marketing distinction #bbbt 10:42 AM Apr 27th via TweetDeck
QV - Donald says BI tools today only do very simplistic collaboration. Agreed. See my view of what we need: bit.ly/iSights #bbbt 10:33 AM Apr 27th via TweetDeck
Here's the old myth - DWs are traditionally developed in Big Bangs with years to value ... This has not been the norm for 20 years! #bbbt 10:28 AM Apr 27th via TweetDeck
@Claudia_Imhoff "QV has irrevocably changed the face of BI ..." Would argue that it's not only Qlikview. #bbbt 8:44 AM Apr 27th via TweetDeck in reply to Claudia_Imhoff
#tduniv Great speaker line-up at Teradata Universe 2012 Dublin got me thinking about big data and why we do it. Blog: bit.ly/I13CYe 9:26 AM Apr 25th via TweetDeck
The Teradata Universe 2012 Dublin conference #tduniv raised some fundamental thoughts on the use of Big Data for me: bit.ly/I13CYe 3:50 AM Apr 25th via TweetDeck
#tduniv Stephen Few - The Dis-Information Age ... do we know how to make sense of our data? 6:20 AM Apr 24th via TweetDeck
KenOConnorData Next big job / role - the person who understands both data and process - #mdmdg from @passion4process I agree !! 1:48 AM Apr 24th via TweetDeck Retweeted by BarryDevlin and 1 other
#tduniv @duncan3ross Hmmm! I suspect that a decision based on some (potentially bad) data is worse than one based on intuition... 1:50 AM Apr 24th via TweetDeck
@duncan3ross Hmmm! I suspect that a decision based on some (potentially bad) data is worse than one based on intuition... 1:49 AM Apr 24th via TweetDeck in reply to duncan3ross
#tduniv Berners-Lee - all RDF triples should actually be quads - showing provenance of relationship - yes please! 1:47 AM Apr 24th via TweetDeck

Name Barry Devlin
Location South Africa
Web http://www.9sight...
Bio Insight beyond Business Intelligence. Founder 9sight consulting. Blog: www.b-eye-network.com/blogs/devlin/