At SAS Global Forum, we added our first Analytic Hero to the League - Rick Andrews of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Rick has fought epic analytical battles in the healthcare industry resulting in better lives for millions of consumers, and thus he has joined me in Datapolis as Illumino to fight the villain Frackture.

In our time at SAS Global Forum we met many Analytic Heroes in Training - innovators in high-performance and in-database analytics at organizations with their own epic struggles against big data overload. In our conversations we have discovered that Analytic Villains like Obscuro and Frackture are organizing a counter attack against SAS and Teradata customers on Earth. So, we are looking for YOU to be our eyes and ears in the real world as we continue to fight our battles in Datapolis.

If you have battled or know anyone who has battled one of the villains of analytics identified in my post earlier this week, or if you know of new villains plaguing your organization - send a tweet to Dr. Insight using the hashtag #AnalyticHeroes. Ilumino and I will return for a Analytic Heroes Twitter Chat in June to discuss a strategy for battling these villains. We hope you can join us there.

REMEMBER, THERE IS A REWARD OFFERED FOR THE CAPTURE OF THESE VILLAINS.