Ode to Initiate Systems
In which Jill pays homage to a class act. The rumors of IBM’s acquisition of MDM vendor Initiate Systems were…
Social Networking, as seen by The Economist
The current issue of The Economist (January 30 -February 5 2010) features a 15-page special report on social networking. Typically…
Just Tell Me What I’m Doing
In my last post I took us all in the local analytic community to task for a shared lack of…
What is Big Data?
Image by Aranda\Lasch via Flickr One of my favorite terms at the moment is “Big Data”. While all terms are…
Guest post: What is Data Mining – Explaining it to the Layman
It is my pleasure to welcome Barbara Williams on Data Mining Research for a guest post about data mining. Barbara…
Malaysian Blogosphere Division
(Briefly) I've been working with some new data that our team has produced and created the view below. What I…
What does Google know about you?
As I promote The Numerati, people often ask me how much Google knows about each of its users. So a…
Which is more important? Rearview mirrors or windshield?
A popular pair of PowerPoint slides used by business conference speakers first displays a distant car behind in the rearview…
Counting Observations
Data is fodder for the data mining process. One fundamental aspect of the data we analyze is its size, which…
Operational decision making as a corporate asset
I often tell companies and other organizations that they should treat decisions and decision making as assets. In Smart (Enough)…
