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What the Launch of Social.com Shows Us
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Today Salesforce announced the launch of Social.com – a social advertising solution that brings the power of Radian6 and Buddy Media (two recent acquisitions made by Salesforce for over $1 billion total that had been floundering looking for a purpose) into an innovative way to use Marketing 2.0.[read more]
Don't Gloat Over Excel Model Failures
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Two noted economists, Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhardt, recently made an Excel spreadsheet error that led to some grave miscalculations. But just because mathematical calculations are wrong, it doesn’t mean a particular idea isn’t directionally sound.[read more]
Informatica's Master Data Management Strategy
Informatica sees a lot of potential in the notionally rather mature area of data integration, with hand-coding still the norm in many companies, especially in less developed markets. Informatica’s MDM offering is based on two acquisitions, Siperian and now Heiler.[read more]
Informatica: Establishing Order from Information Chaos
I recently attended the annual Informatica analyst summit to get the latest on that company’s strategy and plans. The data integration provider offers a portfolio of information management software that supports today’s big data and information optimization needs.[read more]
R Script Tracks Bookies' Favorites for the Next Pope
Tired of manually running a python script to scrape the latest bookmaker odds on the next Pope, R user AJ (an analytical research manager at a large healthcare company) instead created an R script to track the odds on the Papal successor.[read more]
Social Data on Chinese Microblogs and the Oscars
The annual Oscar awards dominated social media this year, especially in the US. But we wanted to know what people on Chinese social media sites had to say about it. We punched in the keyword “Oscars” (奥斯卡) and let our social media monitoring software do its thing.[read more]
Business Analytics and Hollywood: A Match Made in Heaven?
Best Supporting Actor: business analytics? Before we watch the Academy Awards tonight, let's examine the surprising role business analytics plays in several of the Best Movie nominees, including Zero Dark Thirty, Argo, Les Miserables, Lincoln, and Silver Linings Playbook.[read more]
Big Data: A Natural Solution for Disaster Relief
Last Friday, a 10,000-ton meteor sped into northern Russia at 40,000 miles per hour. The resulting shock wave hurt an estimated 1,000 people. With big data as common in science as it is everywhere else, could we have used better tools to see this coming?[read more]
Latest News: Samsung, BlackBerry Z10, and More
The Samsung juggernaut widens its lead over Apple; Android tablet updates; Apple releasing new iPad model. And, for the first time (perhaps ever), has BlackBerry finally come up with a product hotter than the iPhone?[read more]
Votamatic Predicted the Presidential Election Results with R
Nate Silver was the one wearing the laurels the day after the 2012 election, but Drew Linzer, using the R language to build the statistical model behind votamatic.org, was able to predict the outcome months before most pundits.[read more]
Mobile Browsers Failing Security Tests
Top news stories: Mobile Browsers Flunk Security Tests; Growth in cloud computing to shape 2013 security trends; VA OIT could face GS-15 retirement crunch; Companies increasingly using public cloud; What does cyber even mean?[read more]
In case you missed it: October 2012 Roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from October of particular interest to R users.Sponsorships for local R user groups from Revolution Analytics are now open to applicants worldwide.During the landfall of Hurricane Sandy in the US, several R-based apps used public weather and social media data to document its impact, like...[read more]
Michigan Cyber Initiative Reports 'People' as Weakest Link in IT Security
Not sure where I was last year, but I somehow missed the entire Michigan Cyber Initiative launched by the State of Michigan. If you did too, you can review their efforts at www.Michigan.gov/cybersecurity. After scanning the Cybersecurity Measures for Businesses section, one thing that caught my eye was the Personnel Security Controls – ‘...[read more]
Infochimps' New CEO on What's Next in Big Data
Jim Kaskade
Jim Kaskade, the newly-appointed CEO of Infochimps, believes CIOs are ready to embrace open source big data software and that the established IT players, lacking open source experience, will have to buy their way into the market.[read more]
How Mobile Operators are Mining Big Data
Mobile phone operators have long mined details on voice and data transactions to measure service quality, place cellular towers in optimal locations and even respond to tariff and rate disputes among various carriers. But, there’s a lot more that is now mined from mobile data.[read more]
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