Thoughts from 1010data’s Insight Summit
Last week, 1010data hosted more than 325 clients, partners, and staff at its third Insight Summit, an opportunity for all of us to step away from our day-to-day analytic practices and think about how data and advances in analytic technologies can elevate our work. Here is our insight on the Insight Summit! ... Read more
Getting food delivered to your doorstep is getting easier and easier and the market for convenience is getting more and more crowded. According to a recent report published on TechCrunch, the takeout and delivery market is $70 billion overall... Read more
Ecom Experts Series Ajit Sivadasan, GM Global eCommerce, Lenovo
In the Ecom Experts, we focus on e-commerce thought leadership and insight by conducting short interviews with industry leaders and influencers who, through their unique experience and category leadership, have gained special perspectives on the growth and direction of online... Read more
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
