The scope of IT’s responsibility when businesses go bad
Chief Information Officer (CIO) Network This article is another relating to a discussion on LinkedIn.com. As with my earlier piece,…
Who Wants To Play “Jeopardy”?
That would be IBM Research, for millions of dollars (I suspect). I’ve known about the Jeopardy project for a while…
Taking Assumptions With A Grain Of Salt
Occasionally, I come across descriptions of clustering or modeling techniques which include mention of "assumptions" being made by the algorithm.…
Guest Post: Inference for R
Today, I would like to welcome Ben Hinchliffe as a guest blogger on Data Mining Research. Ben is working at…
Social Analytics?
Do you ever have those moments when something someone says in a conversation is the one missing piece of a…
Report: 6th Annual SAS HLS Executive Conference
Wow, what a great event we just had. The 6th Annual SAS Health and Life Sciences Executive Conference wrapped up…
First Look – New Wisdom RuleGuide
New Wisdom was founded in 2006 (as a spinoff of Lambert Consultants) to develop software for managing business source rules.…
How do the Swedes sweeten performance management?
Last week I was a presenter at a seminar in Stockholm, Sweden. My co-presenters were Linus Malmberg, CEO of the…
Apples and Oranges
There's a fascinating -- and heated -- discussion going on over at Flowing Data about visualizations, and the quality thereof.…
Twitter Followers, Should We Have a New Metric?
(photo I took on the Great Wall) It seems like at every tech conference or event the issue of how…