Frank Stein

This is a Guest Blog Post by Lee Angelelli of IBM’s Analtytics Solution Center.

IBM’s Analytics Solution Center held our first Analytics Security 360° (AS 360°) event of a series titled “Leveraging Security Analytics to Improve Your Situational Awareness” on September 26th in Washington DC. The event focused on the existing and new security…[Read more]

This Guest Post is by Paul Valenti, IBM Analytic Solution Center Project manger. While the discussion is focused on OMB’s Records Management Directive, all public agencies should be thinking about how they manage all the content they produce, including email, to comply with all government regulations and public trust responsibilities.

September…[Read more]

In medieval times, Alchemists hoped to convert base metals into the noble metal goal through the use of a Philosopher’s Stone.

Today, in the field of information science, we talk about Information Alchemy, converting data into information and then into knowledge. Some people even add a 4th stage of converting knowledge into wisdom[i], but…[Read more]

NOAA’s National Hurricane Center had a huge win last week when it correctly predicted Hurricane Sandy almost 1 week in advance. Sandy was not an easy storm to predict but the use of higher resolution models (NOAA moved from 9 km to 3 km resolution in June), improved extrapolation between real-world data points, and improved modeling allowed…[Read more]

Derechos, Droughts, Hottest July on Record, Shattered High Temp Records, Greenland Ice Sheet Melts. Just what is going on with the weather these days? Is this weather really abnormal or does it just seem to be that way? Is this part of a trend? Does global climate change mean we’ll have more of these extreme weather events? Being a data and…[Read more]

On July 4th, CERN scientists announced that they observed a particle that strongly resembles the Higgs boson, a critical element of the standard model of particle physics. This particle is thought to be responsible for the characteristic of mass, which gives objects weight when combined with gravity.

Detection of the Higgs Boson would not have…[Read more]

In the 1980’s, John Naisbitt wrote, “We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [information] that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.[i]” Little did Naisbitt know how much information we’d be creating 30 years later. By some estimates we are generating over 1…[Read more]

Does your government agency monitor the social media for information relevant to your mission? Should it?

IBM’s Analytics Solution Center recently held a seminar to explore how agencies and companies can obtain value and insight using social media analysis.

Pat Fiorenza discussed how agencies can develop an ROI Model – Return on Influence…[Read more]

If Silicon Valley can claim to be the start-up capital of the U.S., can the Washington Metro area claim to be the capital of Analytics for the U.S.?

I recently asked our IBM market research person to do a database pull to see how many customers with the title “analyst” (and related variants) are in the major metropolitan areas. Not surprising,…[Read more]

At the end of the Superbowl, people created 12,233 tweets per second. And it turns out that was less than half the number of tweets created in Japan on December 9th, when 25,088 tweets per second were recorded about the Castle in the Sky anime movie. Which, according to the Chinese, is nothing compared to the 32,312 messages per second sent on…[Read more]

On November 30, the Partnership for Public Service (http://www.ourpublicservice.org) released their new study, “From Data to Decisions: The Power of Analytics.” [i]

Keynoting the event was Shelley Metzenbaum, Associate Director for Performance and Personnel Management, OMB. She told the audience that Performance Management is a core pillar of the…[Read more]

Take your boss to go see the movie Moneyball. You probably already know that it stars Brad Pitt and has gotten great reviews. It has been playing since late September, so I’m not sure how much longer it will be in theaters. Here is the trailer from the movie:

This is the story of Oakland Athletics baseball GM Billy Beane, and how he uses…[Read more]

Do today’s MBAs need Analytical Skills? That was the question that a recent Symposium tried to answer.
On October 21, George Washington University’s Institute for Integrating Statistics in Decision Sciences (I2SDS) and IBM’s Analytics Solution Center held a Symposium entitled: Analytics and the 21st Century MBA. The abstract provides a good…[Read more]

In these tough fiscal times, all agencies are going to be focusing on doing more with less. How does one get more done with less budget and staff? Consider turning to Analytics.

The consulting firm Nucleus Research has been looking at the Return on Investment [1](ROI) for various types of IT projects. According to David O’Connell,…[Read more]