Comments on: Business Intelligence Goes Back to the Future http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/11/02/business-intelligence-goes-back-to-the-future/ Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:17:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Daniel Lemire http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/11/02/business-intelligence-goes-back-to-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-705 Daniel Lemire Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:43:53 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=731#comment-705 Yep. Now we just need to get academic researchers to agree as well. Oh! And can anyone get GMail's spam filter talking to me? Machine learning is good and all, but blind machine learning is not very nice. Yep. Now we just need to get academic researchers to agree as well.

Oh! And can anyone get GMail’s spam filter talking to me? Machine learning is good and all, but blind machine learning is not very nice.

]]> By: Daniel Tunkelang http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/11/02/business-intelligence-goes-back-to-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-691 Daniel Tunkelang Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:22:45 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=731#comment-691 I hear you. We're trying to do some of that painting too, but you're right the we, and everyone in the BI space, have a ways to go. But I think a key success factor is presenting information in a way that catalyzes human insight, rather than over-relying on data mining to come up with that insight on its own. The painting is a cooperative process between the system and the user. I hear you. We’re trying to do some of that painting too, but you’re right the we, and everyone in the BI space, have a ways to go. But I think a key success factor is presenting information in a way that catalyzes human insight, rather than over-relying on data mining to come up with that insight on its own. The painting is a cooperative process between the system and the user.

]]> By: Daniel Lemire http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/11/02/business-intelligence-goes-back-to-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-690 Daniel Lemire Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:29:18 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=731#comment-690 The business data we have now today is made of large sets of meaningless bits. What BI really is in 2008 is "painting". You need to put all the bits together and tell a story. Aggregation is key. I won't deny that good retrieval is important, and certainly we need products like the one you guys produce, but the future is in "painting", not retrieving the "dots". The business data we have now today is made of large sets of meaningless bits. What BI really is in 2008 is “painting”. You need to put all the bits together and tell a story. Aggregation is key.

I won’t deny that good retrieval is important, and certainly we need products like the one you guys produce, but the future is in “painting”, not retrieving the “dots”.

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