Who Wants To Play “Jeopardy”?
That would be IBM Research, for millions of dollars (I suspect). I’ve known about the Jeopardy project for a while…
Taking Assumptions With A Grain Of Salt
Occasionally, I come across descriptions of clustering or modeling techniques which include mention of "assumptions" being made by the algorithm.…
Guest Post: Inference for R
Today, I would like to welcome Ben Hinchliffe as a guest blogger on Data Mining Research. Ben is working at…
Social Analytics?
Do you ever have those moments when something someone says in a conversation is the one missing piece of a…
Dashboards should do more than raise your blood pressure
This headline came from a briefing I got from LucidEra about their spring release and was so good I just…
Oracle and Sun
As I came off a weeks vacation Monday I was greeted by a 5AM call from Oracle informing me that…
Friends Don’t Let Friends Overpay for BI
Business Intelligence projects are famous for low success rates, high costs and time overruns. The economics of BI are visibly…
First Look – New Wisdom RuleGuide
New Wisdom was founded in 2006 (as a spinoff of Lambert Consultants) to develop software for managing business source rules.…
Embracing Email Authentication a Must
The Online Trust Alliance (www.otalliance.org) announced that 56% of government websites and only 45% of major online retailers have implemented…
Apples and Oranges
There's a fascinating -- and heated -- discussion going on over at Flowing Data about visualizations, and the quality thereof.…
