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The latest report card from the American Society of Civil Engineers gives infrastructure in the United States a grade of D+. They estimate an additional $200 billion is needed per year, on top of [...]

Why do we need situational intelligence? When we lack information, or information is not easily consumed or comprehended, then our decisions are compromised. We don’t have the right information, [...]

It’s ironic that many of us struggle to find our car keys in the morning, yet we’re also launching billions of mobile and increasingly autonomous devices into the world to report on conditions, [...]

Plenty of us complain about data quality, or worry our data isn’t good enough for analytics. But what do we mean when we say “data quality”? When I was in business school, we defined [...]

According to the U.S. Energy Information Agency, use of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power in the United States doubled in just six years. From 2007 to 2013, renewables grew [...]