Factoids, Stories and Insights
Recently, The Economist had a special report titled “Data, data everywhere“. The report examines the rapid increase in data volumes…
The Surgeon, the Survey and Survival
Statistical analysis is a venerable approach in medical research. It is one way to find causes of conditions that are…
Predictive Analytics: 8 Things to Keep in Mind (Part 4)
Theme 4: Statistical techniques and tools are not likely to provide competitive advantage I read this interesting post from Sijin…
The influence of open source on general BI
Until recently, open source solutions were most popular within various developer communities but remained on the fringe of general business…
NoSQL overview for all us “SQL” folks
Brian Aker of MySQL fame gave a 10 minute lighting talk about about the NoSQL movement at the Nov 2009…
Not All Queries Are Created Equal
A topic with which I developed an obsession in my last few years at Endeca is understanding how to predict…
Advancing Corporate Uses of the Internet and Social Networking to Drive Business & Profits
It’s about 65 years since World War II ended and that means major transitions - for many reasons. First, there…
Friendship data: 33Across crunches the numbers [audio interview]
If you leave a comment on this blog post (and I hope you do), how likely is it that you'll…
Socializing
I recently tweeted an observation of David Weinberger's on how our language has shifted: Over the past decade, we’ve gone…
Predictive Analytics: 8 Things to Keep in Mind (Part 3)
Theme 3: Integrating third-party data into predictive analysis This is the third installment of the eight part series on predictive…
