Posts By Brian Murrow

Analytics-driven Organizational & Cultural Change at the FDA

As a continuation of my IBM/Partnership for Public Service Podcast series of discussions about using big data and analytics in a number of creative and interesting ways to support real-world business goals, Conversations on Big Data, we recently discussed with Malcolm Bertoni, Assistant Commissioner for Planning at the Food and Drug Administration, the important elementsRead… Read more »

Focusing on Goals Increases Payoff of Analytics

For several years, IBM and the Partnership for Public Service have partnered to bring lessons learned from industry leaders in the use of Big Data Analytics to our readers. This year we had a series of Conversations on Big Data, a Podcast series of discussions about using analytics in a number of creative and interestingRead… Read more »

Focusing on Goals Increases Payoff of Analytics – A Conversation on Big Data

For several years, IBM and the Partnership for Public Service have partnered to bring lessons learned from industry leaders in the use of Big Data Analytics to our readers. This year we had a series of Conversations on Big Data, a Podcast series of discussions about using analytics in a number of creative and interestingRead… Read more »

Extracting Meaningful Analysis from Data Using Natural Language Processing.

In the past, unstructured data was too complex for common statistical programming languages to analyze. Therefore, in order to gain meaningful interpretations from unstructured data, people had to manually sort through various sources of data to draw conclusions. With limited resources and an overwhelming quantity of data, this method has become inefficient and costly. AsRead… Read more »

Five ways to get value out of Big Data in 2013

“Fewer than 15% [of senior finance executives] are confident that they get helpful information for making decisions about the future.” – Corporate Executive Board, March 2012 In addition to the fact that Chief Executives feel as though they lack data for good decision-making, over 40 percent of CFOs rate themselves as ineffective in their questRead… Read more »