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Interview Donald Farmer Microsoft

Here is an Interview with Donald Farmer of Microsoft talking about the passion for the exciting business intelligence projects at MS.

Q Describe your career from high school to your current job responsibilities at Microsoft. How can technology companies in America work together to grow the home pool of American science students ( irrespective of market share… Continue

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Here is an interview with Evan Levy, founder of one of the best and most practical business consultancy Baseline Consulting. The lower the bull-shit the better the consultant ( forgive my ….) Read here why Baseline’s frank and fast technology acumen have made it a rising star in the this fast… Continue

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An interview with Augusto (StrayCat), a Startup Entrepreneur with an interesting technology StraySoft.

Ajay- Describe your career as a BI consultant.

Straycat- I’m an aerospace engineer who had to turn to IT right after graduation because of the Italian aerospace industry crisis in… Continue

http://decisionstats.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/interview-thomas-c-redman-author-data-driven/


Here is an interview with Tom Redman, author of Data Driven. Among the first to recognize the need for high-quality data in the information age, Dr. Redman established the AT&T Bell Laboratories Data Quality Lab in 1987 and led it until 1995. He is the author of four books, two p… Continue

http://decisionstats.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/interview-shawn-king-sr-director-aster-data/

Here is an interview with Shawn Kung, Senior Director of Product Management at Aster Data. Shawn explains the difference between the various database technologies, Aster’s rising appeal to its unique technological approach and touches upon topics of various other interests as well to p… Continue

http://decisionstats.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/interview-ken-o-connor-business-intelligence-consultant/

Here is an interview with an industry veteran of Business Intelligence, Ken O Connor.

Ajay- Describe your career journey across the full development cycle of Business Intelligence.

Ken- I started my career in the early 80’s in the airline industry, where I work… Continue

http://decisionstats.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/interview-michael-zellerceo-zementis-on-pmml/

Here is a topic specific interview with Micheal Zeller of Zementis on PMML, the de facto standard for data mining.

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Ajay- What is PMML?

Mike- The Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) is the leading standard for statistical and data mining models and supported by all lea… Continue

Here is an interview with Timo Elliott, Senior Product Director SAP Business Objects.



Ajay- Describe your career in science from school to Senior Director in SAP to blogger/speaker. How do you think we can convince students of the benefits of learning science and maths.

Timo- I studied economics with statistics in the UK, but I had always been a closet geek and had dabbled with computers ever since I was a kid, starting with Z80 assembler code. I started my career doing low-level computer co… Continue

Here is an interview with James Taylor, a leading consultant and evangelist in the emerging field of converging decision management.



Ajay- Describe your career in science. What fascinates you with reporting on this segment. How would you interest freshmen students in taking up statistics and math courses.

James- I took Geological Geophysics and Mathematics in college but graduated in a year when the oil price was in free fall and never worked in geophysics. Since then I have worked in comput… Continue

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James is hosting a webinar series on decision manaement, predictive analytics and business rules this fall. You can check out the webinars and register for some or all at… Continue

Here is an interview with one terrific person who has always inspired my writing ( or atleast my attempts to write) on data and systems. Neil Raden is a giant in the publishing and consulting space for business intelligence ,analytics, and decision management. In a nice interview Neil talks of his passion for his work, his prolific authoring of white papers, his seminal work with James Taylor and how he sees the BI space evolve.

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Here is an interview with Stephen Baker, the author of the famous and remarkable book The Numerati. Stephen is the senior editor at Businessweek and his remarkable book made the world sit up and pay attention because for the first time, anyone wrote of the increasingly quant driven lives we lead thanks to the internet and the analytical brains that power the stimulus, design and targeting of it. Increasing amounts of data is collected about consumers than at any previous point of time in huma

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Here is an interview with Dylan Jones the founder/editor of Dataqualitypro.com , the site to go to for anything related to Data Quality discussions. Dylan is a great charming person and in this interview talks candidly on his views.

Ajay: Describe your career in science and in business intelligence.… Continue

Here is an interview with the fabulous Terri Rylander, innovative and creative Business Intelligence marketing consultant and the principal of Advanced Marketing Collateral . As the BI marketing wars heat up, cost pressures on optimize marketing ROI and emerging marketing channels will lead to a trend in which BI vendors would choose the best resources not just the in-house resources. Marketing communication remain the un-sung heroes of Business Intelligence with all the glamour and focus on the… Continue

Here is an interview with Charlie Berger, Oracle Data Mining Product Management. Oracle is a company much respected for its ability to handle and manage data, and with it's recent acquisition of Sun- has now considerable software and financial muscle to take the world of data mining to the next generation.



Ajay- Describe your career in data mining so far from coll… Continue

An interview with renowned technology analyst Merv Adrian is as follows. Mr Adrian has spent three decades in IT industry and has also served as SVP at Forrester Research, and now is founder of IT Market Strategy. Merv talks on his views on technology and how he sees the next big tech trends coming.

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Here is an interview with Dr Usama Fayyad, founder of Open Insights LLC (www.open-insights.com). Prior to this he was Yahoo's Chief Data Officer. In his prior role as Chief Data Officer of Yahoo! he built the data teams and infrastructure to manage the 25 terabytes of data per day that resulted from the company’s operations.… Continue

Here is an interviw with Gregory Piatetsky, founder and editor of KDNuggets (www.KDnuggets.com ) ,the oldest and biggest independent industry websites in terms of data mining and analytics-



Ajay- Please describe your career in science, many… Continue

The business intelligence -business analytics- data mining industry ( or as James Taylor would say Decision Management Industry) have some reactions on IBM - SPSS ( which was NOT a surprise to many including me). Really.

From SAS Institute, Anne Milley

http://blogs.sas.com/sascom/index.php?/archives/557-Analytics-is-still-our-middle-name.html

Besides SAS, SPSS was one of the last independent analytic software companies. A colleague says, “It’s the end of the analytics cold war.” I'

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