Year: 2011

Is Watson less efficient than a human?

When it comes to computing efficiency, humans beings blow Watson away. As…

StephenBaker1 StephenBaker1 2 Min Read

The Future of Business Intelligence

Keynote address to the Next Generation Data Warehousing Conference, IDG Korea , Seoul,…

Steve Bennett Steve Bennett 6 Min Read

Tuesday Night Massacre Hurt Watson’s Ratings

Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy reports that interest in Jeopardy's Man-vs-Machine match dipped…

StephenBaker1 StephenBaker1 2 Min Read

Data Mining Book Review: Competing on Analytics

After reading the excellent book Analytics at Work, I went back in…

SandroSaitta SandroSaitta 2 Min Read

Some R Package Updates

Packages for R are being added and updated so frequently now that…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 1 Min Read

Dear Watson: What is life?

Scouring Twitter for Watson stuff, I just came across some deep questions…

StephenBaker1 StephenBaker1 3 Min Read

Impersonating our new computer overlords

There's been a lot of news recently (here in the US at…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 2 Min Read

Student Travel Grants for useR! 2011

For students planning to attend the annual worldwide R user conference, useR!…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 1 Min Read

First Look – Toovio

Toovio was founded by a group of ex-database marketers who have extensive…

JamesTaylor JamesTaylor 9 Min Read

Connectivity Disrupting Traditional Models: Online Peer to Peer Commerce

As the world became more connected through the Internet in the 1990's,…

mfauscette mfauscette 5 Min Read