Is there anything new in Predictive Analytics?
Federal Computer Week's John Zyskowski posted an article on Jan 8, 2010 on Predictive Analytics entitled "Deja vu all over…
The Life Saved By a Database May Be Your Own! Dot-Connecting Is Serious Business
By now, we’re all aware of the Detroit bombing attempt and President Obama’s comment that US security organizations need to…
Data Visualization: How (2 of 2)
The short answer, as you know, is that it's impossible to tell you how to be insightful and imaginative in…
Developer Central Update: The CDB
I have posted new versions of the SPSSINC MODIFY TABLES and SPSSINC MODIFY OUTPUT extension command dialog boxes to Developer…
Standardizing Data Migration
In the motion picture industry, studios separate responsibilities for creating content from responsibilities for distributing content. The people who make…
Data Visualization: Why (1 of 2)
Between business requests and breathless vendors, I am getting caught up in the growing tide of interest in "data visualizations"…
Netflix zip-code data: How about political overlay?
I've been enjoying exploring this New York Times chart on Netflix rentals, zip code by zip code. The top rental…
Can You “Near Me Now”?
Weren’t we just talking about what’s different about mobile search use cases and about how to make web search more…
Because it’s Friday: Gravity Wells
It's a little strange to see a web comic come up with such interesting visualizations, but xkcd has followed up…
Data correlation: Used-car customers drop cell-phone service?
I pay Verizon about $1,500 a year for family cell-phone service. If you figure that one-third of that goes into…
