The Rise of the Columnar Database
photo by eflonI’m continually surprised that more vendors haven’t hurled themselves onto the columnar database bandwagon. The more this space…
SAS for Data Mining
After having used Matlab and R for data mining, I am now using the SAS (Statistical Analysis System) solution. The…
A Tale Of Two Banks
I have bank accounts at ICICI & Citibank (India). I also use credit cards of these two companies. Let’s first…
Twitter Analytics: Bio information and popularity
In the previous post we identified words used in Tweets that appear to be associated with low number of followers:…
The Trouble with Data
This video made its debut this week at TechEd 2009 during the Donald Farmer’s session on self service analysis with…
Beyond Predictive BI
David Linthicum’s recent blog post Approaching Predictive BI made me want to reiterate some of my thinking around BI (on…
Want to Experience SAP BusinessObjects Explorer? Try This Micro-Finance Demo!
As I mentioned in the previous post, SAP launched the new BusinessObjects Explorer Accelerated product today. You can try out…
Twitter Analytics : These words may be affecting your popularity
Text Mining techniques can be used to identify specific words that are correlated with Twitter accounts having high or low…
Ultimate Twitter Research Study
I’m posting a brief interview with Tom De Ruyck who is Connected Research Manager at InSites Consulting as well as…
The House, the FTC and New Privacy Legislation
Growing concern over behavioral advertising, specifically ISP-based advertising has caused members of the House to propose drafting new online privacy laws. There…
