Simple Tools for Building a Recommendation Engine
Revolution’s resident economist, Saar Golde, is very fond of saying that “90%…
When Do You need All the Data for Big Analytics?
In the 2012 edition of the SAP Sybase Capital Markets Guide, Revolution…
How NOAA uses R to forecast river flooding.
Thanks to the lower-than-usual snowfall over most of the US this past…
Because It’s the Weekend: Visualizing Ocean Currents
In yesterday's post about the visualization of sailing ship data, some of…
Marketing Optimization with LityxIQ
Marketing is one of the pioneering domains when it comes to applications…
Bigger Data, Better Intelligence for Government
Tomorrow (at 2PM Eastern on Thursday), the White House White House Office of…
Because it’s Friday: Please don’t write like a scientist
When Adam Rubin was a PhD student, his advisor accused him of…
The Anachronism Machine: The Language of Downton Abbey
I've recently become hooked on the TV series Downton Abbey. I'm not…
R and Hadoop: Step-by-step Tutorials
At the recent Big Data Workshop held by the Boston Predictive Analytics group, airline…
Defining “Data Scientist”, cont’d
Forbes continues the series exploring the definition of "data scientist" with an…