Google dashboard: Does it enhance privacy?
With a new Google dashboard, unveiled yesterday in Spain, we'll be able to monitor the information Google has about us…
Public Information
In a past life I co-founded and led a company specialised in the analysis of publicly available textual information. The…
Online survey research – how accurate?
The debate over the accuracy – and quality – of survey research conducted online is flaring at the moment, at…
Beyond ZIP +4 to Location Intelligence
In the United States, ZIP +4 assists marketers in targeting customers by city, neighborhood, or street, but geospatial location intelligence…
The sentiment on US Economy from Twitter
Is the economic crisis over? What is the sentiment of people regarding US Economy and the future? These are some…
Building Neural Networks on Unbalanced Data (using Clementine)
I got a ton of ideas whilst attending the Teradata Partners conference and also Predictive Analytics World. I think my presentations…
Early Indications October 2009: The Exploding Mobile Web
This newsletter is about numbers, specifically these:9103,000664,93260100,000We'll take these in turn.According to Morgan Stanley's Mary Meeker, whose Web 2.0 presentation…
The Promise and Perils of Text Analytics — Privacy
Text analytics may be the next wave of computer analysis. In contrast to quantitative analytics, text analytics broadens mining raw…
Ben Shneiderman’s HCIR 2009 Keynote: The Future of Information Discovery
The slides for Ben Shneiderman’s HCIR 2009 keynote on “The Future of Information Discovery” are now available on the workshop…
Google Experimenting with Social Search
Google may be an also-ran in the social networking market with its Brazil-centric Orkut service, but that hasn’t stopped the…