Speed up backtesting with parallel computing
The video from last month's high-performance backtesting webinar is now available for replay. It's well worth checking out, especially for…
Tweets, Viruses and Bubbles
Twitter seems to have some design flaws which may be the result of its developers not thinking enough about security…
Why it’s a Good Thing That Google’s Data Fetish Drove Away Its Top Designer
Full disclosure: I am long Google.Here are a few of the headlines regarding Doug Bowman’s departure from Google:Google’s Data Fetish…
Stuck in First Gear
Big investments were made in recent years in IT. IBM, Oracle/Siebel and SAP lead the market and were successful not…
Do We Really Need More Data?
Stephen Few had another of his great posts on his Visual Business Intelligence blog - Do We Really Need More…
Gapminder: Animating the World’s Data
Gapminder is non-profit organization that makes social, environmental and economic development data from all the countries of the world available and…
Why normalization matters with K-Means
A question about K-means clustering in Clementine was posted here. I thought I knew the answer, but took the opportunity…
History of BI Month
Here is a good video tutorial from a cool guy working for Microsoft. If you have 10 minutes 36 seconds…
Anderson Analytics Honored at Advertising Research Foundation
Anderson Analytics ARF AwardYesterday at the ARF Anderson Analytics was honored at the luncheon during the ARF Great Minds Awards…
Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and other stuff I don’t have time to grok yet
Lots of good stuff have been coming to my attention lately.Amazon just announced their Amazon Elastic MapReduce program. Sounds like…
