In this post we look at practical ways that information management solutions can be configured without customization to provide real value beyond simply being a big black box that users are required to fill with data. Over the past 10 years we have been learning through watching how non-technical users interact with information management software. … Continue reading
Google is publishing quantitative research on cultural trends drawn from digitized versions of 4% of books ever published between 1800 and 2000 (about 5 million books). A search tool is available to the public to graph the relative frequency of words or n-grams (up to five) over the period 1800-2000. While the underlying corpus (data) is not available, the data sets backing the n-gram … Continue reading
We had some great questions and post-WCMUG conference discussion on applying predictive data analytics approaches to CMMS/EAM data stores and beyond (maintenance, materials, labor, procurement, operations, industry metrics, external conditions). Here is the link to our Motion Chart showing how pattern insight is gained through visualizing across data sets; in this case safety incidents and weather conditions. Inform Solutions Insight from Maximo Data View more … Continue reading
We spoke at the 2011 WCMUG conference about the explosion of open data initiatives. Municipalities see the possibility of delivering services to their citizens without the cost of developing/controlling/maintaining new IT systems – active include Edmonton, Vancouver, and San Francisco transport authority BART. And with the availability of data new services start to emerge to … Continue reading