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3 Questions to Answer Before Building Anything Online
I am obsessed with ideas. Ideas by themselves are both incredibly important and totally-overrated. As such, they are completely misunderstood. Simple ideas can transform world but the mean value for an idea approaches zero. I’m in a position where I...5 Reasons Why I Won’t Build That For You (it’s not just because I said so)
What it means to me to be a free agent
Seth Godin posed 16 questions for people making a living as a free agent. While the people I currently help and those I might help in the future may benefit from knowing the answers here, it’s more important to put in words why I do what I do to...A Layman’s Intro to the Semantic Web: Web 3.0, ontology, and RDFa
A recent San Diego Refresh meeting found me in a room full of fellow geeks learning about microdata and the semantic web. What I thought was going to be a new look at SEO turned out to be a very in-depth look at where the web might be heading. The...Intoxicated by the possibility of making mediocrity hard to sustain (#100ppl)
I was asked recently what my favorite Gaping Void piece is. I experienced a brief moment of intense stress, similar to the feeling I’m sure I’d have if someone offered to buy me any vehicle in the world but I could only choose one. Several rushed...Making a commitment to better output: NO MORE F*CKING TYPOS
The number-one cause for broken pages, missed messages, mysterious errors, and general frustration is, from where I stand, uncorrected fat-finger errors. I say uncorrected because the problem isn’t the mistake, it’s that the mistake is made live...Working with Greatness: The Processes Behind the Production
Something interesting happens when you let someone into your life to take care of things you’re unable or unwilling to do for yourself. There’s this fascinating level of intimacy that develops over a short period of time as one aspect of your life...Make it Simple, Focused, High-Performance, and Polished: My Web Philosophy
I was asked recently by a potential client what my “philosophy of the web” is. What seemed like a strange question at first made perfect sense when I thought about it. "mediocrity now howls in protest" by Hugh MacLeod Without sounding overly...Seasonal Web Traffic: The Proverbial Coal in Your Stocking
December 2009, I looked back through the analytics of several busy content sites I help manage and saw a serious traffic drop-off. It’s no fun being the bearer of bad news and the news was pretty bad. Most sites were seeing close to a 40% decrease...Essential Hardware And Software for Virtual Employees and Contractors
8 months ago, I was able to make the switch to being a completely virtual worker. This is something I did with great excitement, partially because of the position that let me make this shift but also because it’s something I’ve wanted for a long...Improving Website and Wordpress Performance with Hard-Coded Share Buttons
Increasing the page load speed of your website has been proven to increase conversion rates (reduce the number of people who get fed up and leave), increase site usage (time on site and pages per visit), and reduce the chance you’ll be taken...
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HR & Workforce Analytics Innovation Summit
When: Wed, 2012-05-23 08:00
Business Analytics Innovation Summit
When: Wed, 2012-05-23 08:00
Salford Analytics and Data Mining Conference
When: Thu, 2012-05-24 12:09
Information management and governance for the public services
When: Fri, 2012-05-25 08:00
Disruptive Technologies & Innovation Minds 2012
When: Mon, 2012-06-18 09:00
Advanced Analytics for Retail
When: Thu, 2012-06-21 08:00
Advanced Analytics for Consumer Goods
When: Thu, 2012-06-21 08:00
CIMI.Con Evolution 2012
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Predictive Analytics World, June 25-26, 2012 in Chicago
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Big Data for Enterprise USA 2012
When: Wed, 2012-06-27 08:00
“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 ...”