Analytics are for everyone! Well, not building analytics, no. That needs a high level of expertise in statistics, machine-learning, optimiz...

After an early start, I was sitting at breakfast downtown enjoying a burrito and an excellent book on "ensemble methods".  (Yes, I...

A little over 15 years go now, I was set the task to model how much inventory was needed for all of our, 3000 or so, products at every distr...

I'll be speaking next week at the Supply Chain Management Conference at the University of Arkansas on how data-visualization enables act...

I'll be speaking next week at the Supply Chain Management Research Center Conference at the University of Arkansas on how data-visualiz...

It's been quite a while, just over 12 months in fact since my last blog post.  In that time, I've been hard at work developing analy...

In this blog I try to present analytic material for a non-analytic audience.  I focus on point of sale and supply chain analytics: it's...

A couple of weeks ago, I ran a somewhat rough benchmark to show just how much faster large database queries can run if you use better tools....

Here's the scenario: you are a business analyst charged with providing reporting and basic analytics on more data than you know how to h...

Whether your analytic tool of choice is Excel or R or Access or SQL Server or ... whatever,  if you've worked a reasonable range of ana...

Excel is a great tool and I use it a lot.  It's available on almost every business user's desktop and it's highly extensible (...

I've done a lot of  supply chain network design projects and consider myself to be an expert. Had I had this book from the start, I...

10 resolutions for Better Business Analytics Firstly - thank you Santa for reading my Christmas list . I love the T-shirt -  "Stati...

It's that time of year again: my kids have written, re-written and re-re-written their Christmas lists now so we all hope Santa will r...

In my last Blog entry, I talked about reporting in Excel, some of the reasons I choose to make heavy use of  them, and some of the issues th...

What do you think is the most-used reporting tool in the world?  There are a lot of them available, at times it can be hard to move without ...

You paid handsomely for the software, perhaps for consulting too and have had some bright sparks working on it for months: the  results of y...

I have heard this phrase a lot in recent months in a business context.  It’s so visual, I love it!  It’s not quite enough though.  It...

OK - I admit it: when I see a pie-chart in business analytics, my blood pressure rises and, yes, I am apt to tell the analyst exactly what I...

If you search the web you'll find lots of analytic tools to support your business: tools to help with forecasting, inventory optimiz...