Visualizing Lexical Novelty in Literature
Novels are full of new characters, new locations and new expressions. The discourse between characters involves new ideas being exchanged.…
Getting Ready for the Post-Season: Numerati Baseball
I love baseball, and I defend it stoutly against all those who complain that it's boring. But anyone who can…
An App Model Approach to Big Data
According to The American Dialect Society, an app is “the shortened slang term for a computer or smart phone application.”…
Analytics Conferences Gone Wild!
As a result of the attention business analytics has received in recent years, we’re seeing a proliferation of conferences tied…
PAW/TAW – The Most Important Influencers in Analytics
The Most Important Influencers in Analytics Predictive Analytics World and Text Analytics World
How Mobile Analytics Can Help Marketers
As we gear up for the release of the “Moneyball” movie next week, let’s start this mobile analytics post with…
Stalking the Data-Curious Culture – SDC Reflections
This is the first monthly post in the SDC Reflections series where I gather examples from recently contributed articles to…
Creating a Sentimental Social Media Analytics Strategy
For many people or organizations new to social media, sentiment seems like a good place to start an analytics approach.…
Analytics Valley: Big Data, Data Scientists and SAS Programmers
Tom Davenport reported an observation that Silicon Valley is becoming more analytical since companies in the Valley such as Google,…
How to Program MapReduce Jobs in Hadoop with R
MapReduce is a powerful programming framework for efficiently processing very large amounts of data stored in the Hadoop distributed filesystem.
