On The Trail

Yahoo names Usama Fayyad as CDO.
That’s Chief Data Officer to you and I.

Yahoo has named a Chief Data Officer. He says a lot of interesting stuff in this article. For example, business users want 5 +/- 2 numbers from web analytics. I think he needs to expand this a bit, what they need is trend information for about 5 key performance indicators — which adds up to way more than 5 numbers. Anyway it’s good stuff:

http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=59301282