Using Sentiment to Understand Your Consumer & Your Competitors
One of our senior analysts, Peter Knoblock, wrote up a great post about sentiment: Sentiment – A Potential Mirage on…
Statistical Rules of Thumb, Part III: Always Visualize the Data
As I perused Statistical Rules of Thumb again, as I do from time to time, I came across this gem.…
The CIO Diaries – Bridging the Gap to LBOs
CIO -- “I am managing ten applications, eighty five virtual machines, four networks, twenty five IT projects and three data centers.…
Optimizing the Use of Line Charts
A line chart is a classic method for visualizing continuous change from one value to the next (often change over…
USAF Prevents Insomnia with Geospatial
What causes sleepless nights? For sure, too much caffeine can keep your eyelids open, however it’s more likely that worry…
Data Mining Book Review: Data Mining and Statistics for Decision Making
The French also have their data miners and more particularly their data mining authors. Stéphane Tufféry is one of them.
Data Virtualization: 6 Best Practices to Help the Business ‘get it’
Something that doesn’t get talked about enough in the service orientation world is data virtualization. That is, it’s handy to…
Because It’s the Weekend: Cube-Solving Lego Robot
The world record for a human solving a Rubik's cube is 5.66 seconds. This robot, made from Lego Mindstorms and…
ggplot2 for Big Data
(Hadley Wickham, author of ggplot2 and several other R packages, guest blogs today about forthcoming big-data improvements to his R…
