A computer program predicts Viral Tweets
In the previous post we have seen that the author of a Tweet is the most important factor for making…
Google Analytics Achilles Heel
For the casual user, Google Analytics seems like analytics manna and at free it's hard to complain too much.However, for…
Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 1)
In my popular post Getting Your Data Freq On, I explained that understanding your data is essential to using it…
VectorWise
I was fortunate enough to speak with Marcin Zukowski earlier about VectorWise. If you missed it, VectorWise came out of…
Zero Latency: The Next Arms Race
In the near future, your company may be competing with a computer. In fact, companies with the fastest computers, most…
Reality Mining – Too Much Personalization?
What does your mobile phone usage say about you? Probably a lot more than you think. Mobile phone operators are…
It’s data, Jim, but not as we know it – Part 1: What the echo of the Big Bang tells us about the nature of information
Possibly I am just turning into a grumpy old man in my middle-age, but there are two words that when…
Predicting the next Viral Tweet
It is time to use Twitter data for another reason: Can Predictive Analytics be used to identify which tweets have…
Getting Your Data Freq On
One of the most basic features of a data profiling tool is the ability to generate statistical summaries and frequency…
Scraping data from the Web with R
Sometimes the data we need isn't packaged up nicely into a simple comma-separated file or database. It's out there, but…
