Seth Grimes is a contributing editor TechWeb's InformationWeek. He also blogs for TechWeb's Internet Evolution.

TechWeb's AllAnalytics.com, InformationWeek, Internet Evolution, and the Brainyard

• Search, Sentiment, Signals & Sensemaking, AllAnalytics, October 18, 2012
• Twitter Helps Build Social Data Ecosystem, InformationWeek, September 25, 2012
• Where Sentiment Analysis Heads Next, The Brainyard, September 24, 2012
• How to Fix Klout, Internet Evolution, August 29, 2012
• Why Sentiment Analysis Doesn't Depend on Text Analytics, AllAnalytics.com, January 23, 2012
• Domain Names Won't Matter in the iPhone/Watson Age, Internet Evolution, February 23, 2011
• Five Ways To Fool A Twitter Sentiment Tool, InformationWeek, December 16, 2010
• Leading, Lagging And Lame BI And Data Warehousing Transformations, InformationWeek, November 16, 2010
• How to Assess Enterprise Feedback, InformationWeek, Feb 2, 2010
• Predicting 2154: Beyond Avatar's Limitations, InformationWeek, Jan 6, 2010
• Public Intelligence: How It Can Work, InformationWeek, Oct 20, 2009
• The Case for Unique BI Criteria for Government Users, InformationWeek, Oct 1, 2009

Breakthrough Analysis blog

2012
• Q&A: Social Data and Gnip, Breakthrough Analysis blog, November 4, 2012
• BI Visualization, Breakthough Analysis blog, May 2, 2012
• Smart Content Re-viewed: Text Analytics and Semantic Content Enrichment, Breakthrough Analysis blog, January 25, 2012
• Wisdom of the Sports Crowd: Good Odds with Sentibet Sentiment Analysis, January 23, 2012
• Stephen Arnold Blows a Gasket, January 12, 2012
• What are the most powerful open-source sentiment-analysis tools?, January 8, 2012
• Text Analytics in 2012, January 5, 2012
2011
• How I Estimate (Social/Sentiment/Text Analytics) Market Size, December 21, 2011
• Entry-level Choices for Concept/Topic Extraction and Sentiment, December 14, 2011

Breakthrough Analysis blog -- TechWeb's Intelligent Enterprise

2010
• Smart Content, Online on a Social Platform Near You, November 3, 2010
• Social Market Lessons in J.D. Power's Clarabridge & Netbase Analytics Deals, October 22, 2010
• Sociable BI: Could 'Tableau' Become a Verb?, September 27, 2010
• Six Definitions of Smart Content, September 24, 2010
• Google Data, Statistics, and the Semanticized Web, September 20, 2010
• Semantics and Analytics Unlock Value in Social and Online Content, September 8, 2010
• PowerPoint and Failure to Communicate, August 30, 2010
• Mobile BI, Situational Intelligence, and a Call-Out to SAP-Sybase, August 25, 2010
• The Socialization of BI, July 20, 2010
• My Feelings About Sentiment Analysis, June 29, 2010
• Beyond SQL, Knowledge-Seeking Queries, June 23, 2010
• How to Define Accuracy in Analytics for Business, May 11, 2010
• The Debate About Automated Sentiment Analysis, May 3, 2010
• Sentiment Analysis Feels Its Way Forward, April 30, 2010
• Seven Questions for Teradata, April 28, 2010
• It's Very Early in the Game for SAS Social Media Analytics, April 19, 2010
• Can Sentiment Analysis Help Companies Tap New Markets?, April 8, 2010
• Is It Time For NoETL?, Mar 24, 2010
• Open Text Buying Nstein, TechCrunch Misreports, Feb 23, 2010
• The GATE Way to Open Source Text Analytics, Feb 18, 2010
• Open Source Choices, Feb 16, 2010
• Clarabridge Asks, Are You Customer Experienced?, Feb 5, 2010
• Visualize Balance, Visualize Change, Feb 3, 2010
• Semantic Search Footnotes, Jan 31, 2010
• Sentiment Analysis, Enterprise Content, and Social Media, Year 2010, Jan 26, 2010
• Distorted Netflix Rental Data, Online at NYTimes.com, Jan 11, 2010
2009
• Eleven BI/Analytics Topics for 2010
• Google and the Meaning of Half Open
• BI or Analytics? "'T ain't what you do..."
• The Myth of 360 Degree Views
• Text Data Quality: Mistakes and More
• True BI for the Masses
• Commercial and Community Open Source and Pentaho BI
• Open Source Decision Time for Pentaho BI
• Visual BI Meets Pop Culture
• Recovery.gov Double Fault: Broken Data Feeds
• Relaunched Recovery.gov Fails Accessibility Standards
• Twitter Stirs Up the Analyst Industry
• Questions and Answers about USAspending.gov
CEP + BI = Real-Time Event Analytics
• Serious Design Failure at USAspending.gov
• The Opposite of Open Source
• Whacky Graphics at USAspending.gov
• In SPSS, IBM Gains an Open R & Python Analytics Platform
• Predictive Text Analytics and SPSS's Predictive Enterprise Vision
• CEP, Events, and Continuous {Transformation | Intelligence}
• When Business Gets Too Personal
• Summer Reading: IR, Sentiment Analysis, and Visualization
• Reports from the 2009 Text Analytics Summit
• Limits of Visualization: Wordle Misses Meaning
• Text Analytics Survey and Summit
• Candid Thoughts About Some Gartner & Forrester Research
• IBM Weighs In: Information Wants To Be Expensive
• The ACM Looks at Sentiment Analysis
• A Last Look at Open Source BI
• SAS Gets with the (Open Source) Program
• Prediction Market Forecasts Are Not A Sure Thing
• Infonic Reloaded, or the Liberation of Lexalytics
• Slicing Up The BI Market
• Semantic Web Snake Oil
• Vendor Stability Matters Too
• The Real Data Liberation Initiative
• Complex Event Processing as a Marketing Device
2008
• Quality Issues (Still) Plague Spoke.com People Search
• Spock.com Taps Text Analytics
• BI on Content Feeds, a.k.a. Continuous (Twitter) Transformation
• "Many Known and Unknown Fatal Bugs" in MySQL 5.1!?
• Up Next: BI on Social Networks
• Open Source BI: Eclipse BIRT and Talend
• Clarabridge Focuses on Customer Experience
• SAS on Voice Mining
• Heatmap Visualizations: the NY Times and NASDAQ
• Lexalytics' ExecDex, or the PR Folks Know Best
• The Semantic Web: Perhaps Not So "On the Cusp"
• Nominate Now for the 2008 Jolt Awards
• Is Business Activity Monitoring a BI Application?
• Lyzasoft's Non-Analytical Approach to Analytics
• Event Processing Meets Text: Reuters at Gartner
• Infobright, Kickfire, MySQL 5.1, and the MySQL Platform
• MicroStrategy and SAS Advance Mainstream BI Visualization
• BSD Licensing Puts the Shine on Google Chrome
• Learning about Text Analytics
• Yahoo Plans "A New Generation of Search"
• Kognitio and Data as a Service Gain Traction
• The Real Limits of Prediction
• Lexalytics and Infonic Merge (and Overvalue?) Sentiment Analytics
• Sybase, DBMS Clusters, MPP, and DATAllegro
• Two More Views of the Microsoft-DATAllegro Deal
• DATAllegro? Is Microsoft Buying the Wrong Company?
• Enterprise Search and the Findability Gap
• Aster nCluster Builds on Open Source PostgreSQL
• Survey on Voice of the Customer Text Analytics
• E-Discovery, Compliance, Auditing, and Investigation
• News & Surprises from Text Analytics Summit 2008
Social Networking and the Enterprise
• ParAccel Taps Experience, Open Source
• BI Innovation From the Inside Out
• Misunderstanding Open Source
• From Text Analyticsto Data Warehousing
• A Visualization is Worth a Thousand Words
• Finding Design Failure with Microsoft Office Search Commands
• Text Technologies in the Mainstream
• BI Software Is a Commodity Technology
• Prediction Markets and Unpredictable Decision Making
• Teradata Has Acquired BI/DW Firm Claraview
• The SAS-Teragram Deal's Back Story
• Parsing Joseph Weizenbaum
• Greenplum 3, Open Source (Bizgres) 0.9
• Data Warehouse Appliances? Me Too!
• TDWI selection bias: it depends whom you ask
• IBM on text technologies for the legal sector
• Text technologies in the legal world
• The rigidity trap applies to PowerPoint and dashboards alike
• Silobreaker advances social-network visualization
• Renaming the Next Generation Internet
• Buying FAST, Microsoft also gets AIW, Radar, and AdMomentum
• Column stores and Census data: ParAccel and SuperSTAR
• Lessons from the Netflix Prize competition
2007
• A year of IntelligentEnterprise.com
• Campaign visualizations: the bad and the ugly
• Campaign visualizations win my vote
• Business Intelligence in 2008
• (How) has Open Source Data Warehousing developed?
• Let's stop agonizing about BI positioning
• BI needs both architectural thinking and innovation
• Tableau does Web 0.2... but that's just a first step
• Can Security Awareness Deliver Competitive Advantage?
• BI as a Commodity Technology: The Information Angle
• WashingtonPost.com: From Casinos to Counterterrorism
• Jolt Awards Nominations Now Being Accepted
• Semantic Web Visions: A Tale of Two Studies
• Petraeus Does PowerPoint
• Is Database Software a Commodity Technology?
• Five years of OpenOffice.org
• Complex Event Processing Struggles for Market Definition
• Actuate: Commercial Open Source, Commercial Community
• Merger Mania: What's Next for Analytics Vendors?
• Host Google Ads, Boost Your Page Rank
• Market Intelligence (without Search): TechNavio Debuts
• FAST Falters: Financials and BI-Search
• Gartner, Open Source, and Microsoft
• Can Oracle 11g OLAP Query Acceleration Transform BI?
• Roads to Semantics: Tim Berners-Lee and Bill Inmon
• Cognitive Dissonance: Gartner and Open Source
• Voice of the Customer is Only Half the Text Analytics Picture
• The Role of Text Analytics in Search, and an Update on the Inxight Sale
• Can IT Redeem Politics Gone Wrong?
• On the Inxight and ClearForest Text Analytics Deals
• Text Analytics Comes of Age
• Open Source BI Firm Targets Integration Needs
• Open Source Business: Altruistic or Profit Driven?
• Report from the European Text Analytics Summit
• FAST pushes SNaaS . Software NOT as a Service
• The Grand Challenge for Text Mining
• Just How 'Free' Are Open Source Licensing Models?
• Reframing Text Analytics with BI
• InfoWorld Follows (Readers') On-line Path
• On Products, Press Coverage and SaaS
• New from the Hype Machine: BI as SaaS
• Straight Dope About Open-Source BI
• Can Open Source Apps Find Strength in Numbers?
• SAS BI: Solid or Stolid?
• Defining Text Analytics
• Roadkill at the Corner of Search & BI
• EnterpriseDB's Open (Source) Deception
• Humans and Avatars: The Ghost in the Machine

Columns (February 2001-January 2007):

• Make Your Data Tell A Story, January 1, 2007
• In BI Deployments, Methodology Does Matter, November 1, 2006
• Search Is Not the Answer, September 1, 2006: "question-answering" technology
• Will Search Deliver Better BI?, July 1, 2006
• A Data Space for Information Coexistence, May 1, 2006
• New Directions For OLAP, March 1, 2006
• Search for Meaning, January 1, 2006
• Serious Games, Serious Computing, November 1, 2005: computer games as analytical simulations
• Location, Location, Location, September 1, 2005: geospatial analytics/intelligence.
• The Limits of Prediction, July 1, 2005.
• Keep Up With Streaming Data, May 1, 2005.
• Structure, Models, and Meaning, March 1, 2005: "Unstructured data" isn't really unstructured, it's unmodeled.
• Open and Shut, January 1, 2005: revisiting open-source analytics
• Fast Forward, October 30, 2004: high-performance computing
• Seeing the Connection, August 7, 2004: relationship-network visualization
• Data Mining For the Masses, June 12, 2004
• Matchmaker, Matchmaker, April 17, 2004: social networks in business settings
• Accuracy and Precision, March 6, 2004
• The Word on Text Mining, December 10, 2003
• Futures Shock, October 10, 2003: DARPA's ill-fated "terrorism futures" market
• Advanced Analytics Return to BI, August 10, 2003
• Look Before You Leap, June 17, 2003: will government application of analytics to national-security problems be effective?
• The BPM Drumbeat, April 22, 2003: business performance management
• API Wars, March 1, 2003: analytical API update
• Autonomic Computing , November 15, 2002
• Distributed Decision Support, September 17, 2002
• Process and Reality through BPM (Business Performance Management), July 26, 2002
• Expect the Unexpected, June 28, 2002: forecasting unusual events
• The Semantic Web, March 28, 2002
• Out in the Open, January 1, 2002: open source analytical software
• The Tail that Wags the Dog, October 4, 2001: business intelligence & decision support
• XML for Analysis Decoded, August 31, 2001
• Mining a Demographic Mother Lode, June 13, 2001: using Census 2000 data
• Measure for Measure, April 16, 2001: time series support in OLAP tools
• Simultaneous Equation Models, February 16, 2001.

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