Why will automated analysis never trump that of humans? Because, in just five words: Machines. Can't. Tell. Compelling. Stories. That's the core of it. Because what is an analyst, if not a good storyteller? When we're talking about analytics, monitoring, and sheer...
Less than a week after a playoff run that made fans out of an entire country, Alex Anthopoulos, the architect of the most successful Toronto Blue Jays team in more than two decades, has left the organization. Though it’s been widely reported that Anthopoulos was...
***Spoiler Alert*** The third season of Amazing Race Canada finally has a winner--and the final episode didn’t disappoint, featuring a dramatic two-way race to the end that saw brothers Jesse & Gino Montani beat out pro wrestling partners Nick Foti & Matt...
We’ve now reached the midpoint of the second month of election campaigning, and at this point all major Canadian party leaders are at the top of their respective social media games. Amongst all Twitter content either mentioning a federal party or its leader from...
When you wake up in the morning, does the thought of media monitoring look like a 50-pound dumbbell sitting in the corner of your office? If so, you’re not alone. I happen to be a morning person: I’m at the gym lifting weights for two hours starting at 5 am each day...
It was bound to happen, eventually: The economy has now taken centre stage in Canadian election-related Twitter chatter. The incumbent Conservative government has been pushing its economic record and reputation, while opposition parties have criticized the government...
It’s finally here, the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. The movies, the stars, the parties, the after-parties, more stars...it’s a date circled on the calendars of movie buffs for months. And as the excitement builds and bursts forth, Twitter devotedly...
Data analytics firm Alteryx this week released a survey from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services on how companies are leveraging data blending to uncover business insights, even as Big Data sources continue to grow at an unprecedented rate. The survey, which...
Though it doesn’t have the ad power of the Super Bowl, and doesn’t attract the gamblers among us as much as March Madness, don’t cry for the US Open; it gets its fair share of attention. Starting Monday, August 31st in Flushing Meadows, New York, the fourth major on...
Canadians are headed back to the polls on Monday, October 19, following the dropping of the writ on August 2 by Prime Minister Stephen Harper (commencing the longest election campaign period in Canadian history). All four major party leaders are now in full-on...
In episode 7, the Amazing Race Canada left the outdoor playground of Sudbury, Ontario and travelled to the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. As mentioned in last week’s blog posting, the citizens of Sudbury mobilized during the previous airing of the Amazing Race...
Spoiler Alert On this week’s episode of Amazing Race Canada, contestants flew from Santiago, Chile to Buenos Aires, Argentina. The show saw a 10.5-per-cent increase in social media activity compared to last week’s episode. In last week’s post, we speculated the...