Who owns Master Data in your company?
I've had to respond to this question, inside and outside of the company, in a number of different conversations over…
Interview – David Smith REvolution Computing
Here is an Interview with REvolution Computing’s Director of Community David Smith.” Our development team spent more than six months…
People, Process and Politics – We All Hate Data Silos, So Why do They Happen?
Why are data silos so prevalent when we really ought to know better? We know that it’s risky to have…
Waiting for the Big Bing
Everyone is talking about Bing today–well, everyone who isn’t too busy watching Google do the Wave. If you haven’t been…
Find other R users on Twitter
Many R users on Twitter append their tweets with the hashtag #rstats, which makes it easy to find other R…
Why you won’t be building your killer app on a distributed hash table
A great post from Jonathan Ellis on "Why you won't be building your killer app on a distributed hash table"…
Data Mining Poll: Online Privacy
Since I’m applying behavioral targeting in online advertising, I’m curious to know what you think about privacy issues of such…
Wordtree for Visual Text Exploration
Analytics can be all about having the right tool for the job. When your data is text, traditional analysis tools…
Twitter Analytics: Cluster Analysis reveals similar Twitter Users
So far we have seen various examples of using analytics to gain insights from Twitter. Using cluster analysis is a…
The Problem with the Relational Database (Part 1 ) –The Deployment Model
This is the first detailed post in a series I am doing focusing on the issues that exist today with…
