Dr Gates was right, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the spam
In 2004 Microsoft founder (and honorary doctorate recipient) Bill Gates confidently stated that "Spam will soon be a thing of…
McKinsey Says Cloud Computing ‘Makes No Sense’
McKinsey, that fine think tank of consulting intellectuals, recently declared that cloud computing doesn't make sense, an attempt one suspects…
AT&T’s service, called FamilyMaps, allows people to…
AT&T’s service, called FamilyMaps, allows people to track the location of any cell phone on AT&T’s network from a mobile…
Quick Visualization of irs.gov Search Queries
Here is a quick visualization I did in honor of April 15th to investigate what people looking for on tax…
Death of Consumer Segmentation – Ridiculous!
If thinking about segmentation, make sure you talk to someone who has actually done a few different types! There’s another…
Business Analytics and IBM
Syndicated from BeyeNetwork I participated in a panel at IBM’s launch of its new Business Analytics and Optimization service line…
R: From zero to Web 2.0 in six weeks
Over at the blog Learning R, an new R user is documenting his process of learning to use R for…
Dietrich acknowledged that some of what she and her fellow…
Dietrich acknowledged that some of what she and her fellow mathematicians do is like the life of the lead character…
“We’re developing a bag of algorithms to be plugged together,” said William Pulleyblank, chief of…”
““We’re developing a bag of algorithms to be plugged together,” said William Pulleyblank, chief of IBM’s center for business optimization.…
“My question during today’s Q&A session was…
“My question during today’s Q&A session was ‘is this all about consulting and customization, or do you plan to teach…