Month: July 2015

Spotify Knows What I Like But Not What I Want

  I’ve spent a fair amount of time looking at predicative analytics. Predicative analytics is made of software, data, and a model that should forecast, or predict, something. Consumer goods and retail companies use predicative analytics to try and determine what someone will want to buy. Media properties use predictive analytics to take a good … [Read more…]

Is there Open Source without Open Governance?

There are so many misconceptions about open source software. For example one fallacy is that open source means free software. A bigger misconception is that all open source is, in fact, really open. These misconceptions can drive poor decisions and expose companies to risks. Open source software should mean software that is created and evolved … [Read more…]