Exceeding the Speed of Distraction
A couple weeks ago, while preparing for my talk at Gartner’s Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit, I began to think more about the idea of enabling analysts to work at “the speed of thought"... Read more
P&G, Kimberly Clark and Clorox Leading Brands in Amazon Dash Button Sales
Continuing on its path of shopping innovations, Amazon’s Dash Button has been available since the summer of 2015. The Dash Button is an auto-replenishment system for popular household goods like laundry pods, paper towels, coffee, trash bags... Read more
Four Big Themes from #GartnerBI
I spent this week at Gartner’s Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit. It was the first time that I’ve gone to a Gartner event, let alone spoken at one, and found the couple days that I was... Read more
How to (Maybe?) Get Data Science for Free
One of the things I do as 1010data’s Chief Evangelist—every employee of every company should act as an evangelist in some way, shape, or form—is think about how to present and talk to the... Read more
The Inexplicable Fragility of Analytic Systems
One of the themes that I periodically encounter is a concern that the user, if empowered to add data to the system(s) they use or engage in non-standard / ad hoc analyses, will somehow “break” the system... Read more
2015 was a massive growth year for most consumer packaged goods (CPG) categories online. According to estimates from 1010data, retail e-commerce sales grew by 30% over 2014. In store sales for most categories remained nearly flat (U.S. Census Dep’t)... Read more
Can You Hear Me Now? The Surprising Success of the Amazon Echo
In November 2014 Amazon launched a speaker / voice command device to Amazon Prime members. Coming on the heels of the Amazon Fire Phone, which was widely considered a flop, people didn’t know what to expect of the intriguing new... Read more
On “Lowering the Cost of Curiosity”
Earlier this week, I gave a talk entitled, “It’s Not ‘Big,’ It’s Complex: An Outsider’s Perspective on Retail Data” at the National Retail Federation’s Big Show 2016. During the... Read more
Last week, I wrote about how excited I was at the prospect of going to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It was a pretty interesting and incredible week . . . though I left Vegas thinking that we, as consumers, are not any closer to the seamless, frictionless experience that we often hope for or are told will exist . . . but that might be OK.... Read more
The 2015 eCommerce Award Winners
The 1010data Ecommerce Awards presented by TWICE recognizes excellence in online sales across the top retailers in the US. Each of these brands successfully evolved their sales and marketing strategies to live outside the physical confines of brick and mortar and succeeded in partnering with retailers to deliver exceptional online sales results.... Read more