On Friday, a year after the disappointing public float of facebook, Tableau CEO Christian Chabot rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange, opening trading under the ticker DATA. With a initial market cap at $250 and shares starting at $31, traders showed great support, closing the day at $52, up 63%! I love […]
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Our Gartner story: What CIOs can learn from Facebook’s success with data discovery tools
Below is a reprint of an article written by Nicole Laskowski, Senior News Writer for SearchCIO. Nicole did an incredible job summarizing the talk that Namit Raisurana gave at the Gartner BI Summit a few weeks ago. Facebook Inc. tracks more than 1 billion active users on its site every month — up from 600 million at the end […]
Australian Computer Society – Big Data Brisbane meeting
I’m very excited to be presenting on Thursday 14 Mar for the ACS monthly meeting. I’ll be presenting my views on visualisation and data analytics through the eyes of a relative new-comer to the industry. I’ve been fortunate enough to be working for the last 4 years at Ray White as Senior Analyst, learning how to make […]