Is there anything new in Predictive Analytics?
Federal Computer Week's John Zyskowski posted an article on Jan 8, 2010 on Predictive Analytics entitled "Deja vu all over…
The Life Saved By a Database May Be Your Own! Dot-Connecting Is Serious Business
By now, we’re all aware of the Detroit bombing attempt and President Obama’s comment that US security organizations need to…
Standardizing Data Migration
In the motion picture industry, studios separate responsibilities for creating content from responsibilities for distributing content. The people who make…
Netflix zip-code data: How about political overlay?
I've been enjoying exploring this New York Times chart on Netflix rentals, zip code by zip code. The top rental…
Can You “Near Me Now”?
Weren’t we just talking about what’s different about mobile search use cases and about how to make web search more…
Data correlation: Used-car customers drop cell-phone service?
I pay Verizon about $1,500 a year for family cell-phone service. If you figure that one-third of that goes into…
Data Mining and Terrorism… Counterpoint
In a recent posting to this Web log (Data Mining and Privacy...again, Jan-04-2010), Dean Abbott made several points regarding the…
Could Data Governance Help the War on Terror?
In which Jill wags her finger at the silos—ours, theirs, and yours. “Our intelligence community failed to connect those dots,…
Mathematics of an insurgency
Here's a seven-minute TED talk by Sean Gourley, a physicist, on a data analysis of the Iraq war. As Matthew…
Data Mining and Privacy…again
A google search tonight on "data mining" referred to the latest DHS Privacy Office 2009 Data Mining Report to Congress.…
