Early Indications April 2010 The Web of Opinion: Metadata as conversation
In the beginning, there was data, enumerating how many, what kind, where. Data was kept in proprietary formats and physically…
Listen to: Putting the Pieces together – Finding Value in Unstructured Data
We at SmartData Collective hosted a webinar last week examining strategies for extracting real business value from the mounds of…
20 Top Twitter Monitoring and Analytics Tools
Image via Wikipedia Social media is much more than a way to stay connected and to have fun: it’s…
Getting the other 90% of analytic adoption to happen
Analytics is a hot topic these days, with more and more companies adopting analytics to improve their competitiveness, target…
NoSQL Buzz
I have noticed a definite increase in NoSQL buzz over the last few months. This is partly confirmed by Google…
What is a good classification accuracy in data mining?
What a good question! Or what a bad question should I say. In fact, this question is not a good…
AT&T studies user data to cope with iPhone crunch
An excellent piece in the WSJ (behind subscriber wall) about AT&T's push to cope with the exploding data traffic of…
New Rexer Analytics survey
I recently got the survey results from the annual data mining survey that Karl Rexer or Rexer Analytics runs. You…
Data distracts from the business case
With the avalanche of data in almost every enterprise, distractions abound. There's so much potential learning to be done,…
Predictive Analytics: 8 Things to Keep in Mind (Part 6)
Theme 6: Delivering the prediction at the point of decision is critical In 2007, my wife worked as a hospitalist…
