The Human Factor Continually Confounds Probability Models
With four weeks to go in the 2011 Major League Baseball season, the probability of the Boston Red Sox of…
There’s a Lot to Like about R
I once heard John Chambers (the inventor of the S language, and member of the R Core Group) say, "Show…
Big Data: We Have the Technology, but Not the Vision
There’s been plenty said about how the power of data analytics will drive efficiency and new opportunities for today’s and…
Tackling Human Intelligence
I was drawn to the semantic web and semantic technologies because of the potential benefit to each of us. There…
PARTNERS 2011 – what a great success!
What a great success! The 2011 Teradata PARTNERS User Group Conference & Expo is now history and by any…
Foundation of Social Business: Defining Social and Enterprise Text Analytics
Normally, I steer clear of defining terms, primarily because of the term “exceptions”. There are exceptions to every rule so…
Quicksand, Data Overload and Corporate Concrete
One of Avinash‘s favorite expressions is “data puke’, which goes a long way to describing the vast majority of charts,…
Nine Components of a HIPAA Risk Analysis
The Department of Health and Human Services requires organizations to conduct a risk analysis as the first step toward implementing…
