Big Data Blasphemy: Why Sample?
Since data mining began to take hold in the late nineties, “sampling” has become a dirty word in some circles.…
New Big Data Applications
Wikibon’s Jeff Kelly bravely put a stake in the ground recently, first among IT market observers, by
SDC @ Strata – Impressions from the floor
Strata has grown quite a lot since last year's Santa Clara gathering. There are 2,000 attendees, and though that's small…
Update on the 6 March 2012 Government Big Data Forum
With this post I provide an update on the 6 March 2012 Government Big Data Forum, sponsored by Carahsoft.
Target, Pregnancy, and Predictive Analytics, Part II
This is part II of my thoughts on the New York Times article "How Companies Learn Your Secrets".
How the Consumerization of Data Leads to Additional Quality of Life Improvements
In the third post of our series about how people everywhere can use data and tools to make the world…
Better than Brute Force: Big Data Analytics Tips
Long before I encountered the term “Big Data,” questions about dealing with large datasets were a routine part of my…
Selling Data Mining to Management
Preparing data and building data mining models are two very well documented steps of analytics projects. However, whatever interesting your…
Target, Pregnancy, and Predictive Analytics – Part I
There have been a plethora of tweets about the New York Times article "How Companies Learn Your Secrets", mostly focused…
