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Not long ago I had the opportunity to read a book from my long reading list. "Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations"  is a book written by famous author and journalist Thomas L. Friedman and logically as you might know, a best-seller. Admitting I have a mild tendency to avoid best-sellers ―I’ve ran into some disappointments when reading them― I was a bit reluctant to its reading, especially because this was, according to the back cover, close to things I’m familiar with being an industry analyst and consultant in the technology market. Yeap, a typical case of “why should I read it if I know what it’s about.” I was wrong, right from the first pages the book was engaging, entertaining and yet, quite insightful. The book guides you nicely through the recent and profound evolution of information technology in nice and fluent way. Full of information from extensive interviews and clear narrative ―essential I think for a ...

As much as we’d like to imagine that today the deployment and use of predictive analysis has now become a commodity for every organization and it’s of use in every “modern” business. The reality is that in many cases an number of small, medium and even large organizations are still not using predictive analytics and data mining solutions as part of their core software business stack. Reasons can be plenty: insufficient time, budget or human resources as well as a dose of inexperience and ignorance of its real potential benefits can be the cause. This and other reasons came to my mind when I had the opportunity to read the book: Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die written by former Columbia University professor and founder of Predictive Analytics World conference series , Eric Siegel. Aside from being a well and clear written book filled with examples and bits of humor to make it enjoyable, what makes this book in my view a one is, mos...