Small Book Review: The Little SAS Book
To start learning SAS, I decided to read a book different from the dozens of SAS users manual in PDF.…
Wikipedia Page Traffic Statistics Dataset
I’ve published a Wikipedia Page Traffic Data Set containing a 320 GB sample of the data used to power trendingtopics.org…
First Look – Angoss 7
Angoss has just released a new version of their data mining and predictive analytics software, version 7.0. Key themes for…
Tweeting from R
Over at Cerebral Mastication, you can find the code for a function that will allow you to send a status…
Interesting Financial KPIs (REL Consulting)
I found a few KPIs on the web that were worth discussion. These are from REL Consulting (under solutions >…
No Data Warehouse Required: BI Reporting Extends Its Reach
It’s rare these days to find clients who haven’t already decided on a standard BI platform. Most of the new…
Interview: Karl Rexer – Rexer Analytics
The annual survey of Rexer Analytics is considered a benchmark in the data mining and analytics industry. In this interview, …
Privacy in Behavioral Targeting: Poll Results
Here are the results from the poll on the privacy apects of behavioral targeting. Thanks to the 27 people who…
Social Media, Corporate Decisions and Analytics
Over the past six months we have seen real-world applications of data and text mining applied on social media data…
#13: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:Cloudy days aheadThe question…