DavidMSmith

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Simple Tools for Building a Recommendation Engine

Revolution’s resident economist, Saar Golde, is very fond of saying that “90%…

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When Do You need All the Data for Big Analytics?

In the 2012 edition of the SAP Sybase Capital Markets Guide, Revolution…

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How NOAA uses R to forecast river flooding.

Thanks to the lower-than-usual snowfall over most of the US this past…

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Because It’s the Weekend: Visualizing Ocean Currents

In yesterday's post about the visualization of sailing ship data, some of…

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Marketing Optimization with LityxIQ

Marketing is one of the pioneering domains when it comes to applications…

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Bigger Data, Better Intelligence for Government

Tomorrow (at 2PM Eastern on Thursday), the White House White House Office of…

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Because it’s Friday: Please don’t write like a scientist

When Adam Rubin was a PhD student, his advisor accused him of…

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The Anachronism Machine: The Language of Downton Abbey

I've recently become hooked on the TV series Downton Abbey. I'm not…

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R and Hadoop: Step-by-step Tutorials

At the recent Big Data Workshop held by the Boston Predictive Analytics group, airline…

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Defining “Data Scientist”, cont’d

Forbes continues the series exploring the definition of "data scientist" with an…

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