The Problem with the Relational Database
The relational database has been the core mechanism for structured data storage and retrieval for the past 30 years. My…
Another Useless Article on How to Conduct Market Research in a Recession
A BusinessWeek article very originally entitled “Using Market Research in a Recession” by Harvard’s John Quelch published this Tuesday, outlines…
Decision Tree Bagging
A few months ago I started looking for a new trading system idea following the same machine learning philosophy as…
Teradata Podcasts on Data Mining And SNA
I sometimes get asked by vendors to present case studies or examples of work so that they can attract new…
Cloud Expo Europe keynote: Building Great Companies on the Cloud
Yesterday I spoke at the first Cloud Computing Expo Europe and I enjoyed the conference very much. Here is my…
The Rise of the Columnar Database
photo by eflonI’m continually surprised that more vendors haven’t hurled themselves onto the columnar database bandwagon. The more this space…
SAS for Data Mining
After having used Matlab and R for data mining, I am now using the SAS (Statistical Analysis System) solution. The…
A Tale Of Two Banks
I have bank accounts at ICICI & Citibank (India). I also use credit cards of these two companies. Let’s first…
Twitter Analytics: Bio information and popularity
In the previous post we identified words used in Tweets that appear to be associated with low number of followers:…
The Trouble with Data
This video made its debut this week at TechEd 2009 during the Donald Farmer’s session on self service analysis with…
