UseR! 2009 Program Announced
The program and schedule for the premier R conference UseR! 2009 has been announced, jam-packed with almost 200 talks over three…
Workforce Analytics
When I was actively working in the Marketing Research domain, I designed and programmed a lot of surveys on employee…
Twitter Analytics: Words that make a difference
Predictive Analytics are already widely used on Twitter to extract potentially interesting insights. On previous posts we discussed:Sentiment Analysis and…
R/Finance 2009 roundup
The first international conference dedicated to the use of R in the finance industry, R/Finance 2009, was a great success.…
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…
