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Open Source on an upward trend
Accenture’s recent report would indicate very positive developments for Open Source solutions. Interesting commentary recently in Silicon Republic The article attributes the trend to a number of developments – including growing confidence in the sector. I think this general trend ties in with the cloud, people’s own experience of... [read more]
Are We Seeing the Death of Freemium Model?
This past April, popular social networking site Ning announced that it would no longer be able to offer its services for free. In an e-mail to his 40-percent-reduced employees this week, Ning CEO Jason Rosenthal wrote: Our premium Ning networks like Friends or Enemies, Linkin Park, Shred or Die, Pickens Plan, and tens of... [read more]
Open Source is Opening Data to Predictive Analytics
The R Project: despite there being over 2 million users of this open-source language for statistical data analysis, you might not have heard of it ... yet. You might have seen this feature in the New York Times last year, and you might have heard how REvolution Computing is enhancing and supporting R for commercial use. Because what was... [read more]
Microsoft's anti-Google weapon: Open-source Bing
Google continues to punish Microsoft in search, taking some 70% of the market. Worse, Google is offering lots of free Web services, like Google Docs, that undermine Microsoft's lucrative Windows and Office monopolies. How can Microsoft fight back? By turning its search engine, Bing, into an open-source platform. Think of it. If Bing... [read more]
Big Data
Several month's ago a short video appeared on YouTube with an interview of LinkedIn's Chief Scientist DJ Patil. In it he discusses how 'Big Data' impacts the practise of analytics. I've only just got around to posting about it but I am doing so now because he has some insights that I agree with and would like to share as they... [read more]
Python Programs for Non-Python People
Python programs written to run in BEGIN PROGRAM blocks are easy to write and add lots of functionality to IBM SPSS Statistics. Many users have learned to create these. More users, though, do not know the Python language. The extension command mechanism provides a way for users of traditional SPSS syntax to run Python programs... [read more]
COSS BI: Open Source, Open Core or Openly Naked?
Peter Yared wrote recently a BusinessWeek guest blog post called “Failure of Commercial Open Source Software.” Not surprisingly his post caused a lot of angry replies from people who work for COSS companies. “The emperor is not naked” they argued. I believe that the COSS emperor is openly naked. And the discussion shouldn’t be whether... [read more]
2009 Retrospective
I was thinking about top data mining trends in 2009, and searched for what others thought about it. I'll combine a few 2009 "top 3" lists here, including top trends (as described at Enterprise Regulars here), and posts here that generated the most buzz. First, the top data mining news story was IBM's purchase of SPSS. It will be very... [read more]
R, REvolution named in top analytic trends for 2010
Author and enterprise software executive Nenshad Bardoliwalla lists his Top 10 Trends for 2010 in Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Performance Management at the website Enterprise Irregulars. If you've been following the Business Intelligence space (and who hasn't, right?) you'll recognize some familiar themes: predictive... [read more]
R Foundation clarifies position on package licenses
Robert Gentleman, on behalf of the R Foundation, issued today the following statement:We are writing on behalf of the R Foundation, to clarify our position on the licenses under which developers may distribute R packages. Readers should also see FAQ 2.11: this message is not legal advice, which we never offer. Readers should also be... [read more]
Behind the scenes of REvolution's 64-bit Windows port of R
I'm very happy to report that after 6 months of development by a team of 8 developers (at its peak) and two months of beta testing, we're ready to release REvolution R Enterprise for the 64-bit Windows platform.Although much of the work of porting R to a 64-bit codebase was done several years ago by the R Core Team for the Linux and... [read more]
Inside Rohm and Haas’ Open Source Dashboard
In “Rohm and Haas and the ‘Open Source Dashboard," we noted that the big chemical company had deployed a low-cost visualization tool from amCharts for some key applications. Mike Masciandaro, the company’s director of business intelligence, was kind enough to share some sample screenshots.This first screen shows pricing analytics. All... [read more]
Interview with Anne Milley, SAS II
Anne Milley is director of product marketing, SAS Institute. In part 2 of the interview, Anne talks of immigration in technology areas, open source networks, how she misses coding, and software as a service, especially the SAS Institute’s offering. She also reveals some preview on SAS's involvement with R and mentions cloud computing.... [read more]
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“Hi Farnaz,I think the graph type shown in your article is a scatterplot, not a bubble plot. And scatterplots are not an invention of the 'Big Data' age. In fact, they were invented way back in 1833 by Sir John Frederick W. Herschel.It's tough to get an exact definition of Bubble Plot, but when I think of the differences between Bubble and Scatter, I think of aggregation levels. Bubble plots ...”
“David, I'm not so sure that the judge had ruled that the API's are copyrightable. You write, "where it was decided that Google's re-implementation of Java APIs in the Android OS did infringe Oracle's copyright." As of this morning on Friday, May 11th, Judge Alsup has not ruled on that issue.See Grocklaw at: Oracle's Denied Motion For JMOL on Fair Use, as ...”