Data-Driven Weekly (2015-11-09)

November 9, 2015

This is the initial installment of a weekly post on notable articles on the data-driven trend. Topics covered include self-service …

Free yourself from Excel: How to calculate SaaS MRR in Slack

October 29, 2015

FastCompany wrote an article about Slack, which cited some subscriber numbers. This got me wondering what their monthly recurring revenue …

October 26, 2015

Today’s Holy Grail is the data-driven organization. Like the Grail, nobody knows what it looks like, though many are on …

October 4, 2015

If you’re following along the SparkR Quick Start, you’ll notice that the instructions are not consistent with a more recent …

September 29, 2015

I’ll be giving a presentation on Thursday, 8 October on Panoptez, the interactive data analysis platform I’ve been developing. Panoptez …

September 17, 2015

The MapReduce paradigm has long been a staple of big data computational strategies. However, properly leveraging MapReduce can be a …