How They Fit Together: Bell Curves, Bayesian Inference and Black Swans
Probability is defined as the possibility, chance or odds of likelihood that a certain event or occurrence will take place…
IBM Makes Big Data Deal for Vivisimo and Supports Cloudera Hadoop
Through a series of acquisitions and organic development over the last five years, IBM has established itself as a leader…
How NOAA uses R to forecast river flooding.
Thanks to the lower-than-usual snowfall over most of the US this past winter, there's low risk of major flooding as the…
Is Cloud Computing Hurtling Towards Disaster?
The freight train of cloud computing has left the station and is on an exponential growth tear. But just like…
Using Analytics to Create Rating Territories
One of the many areas of property and casualty risk analysis is the effective creation of rating territories based on…
The 4 Biggest Problems with Big Data
People are buzzing about the promise of big data. That’s because
INSA Report: Cloud Computing: Risks, Benefits, and Mission Enhancement for the Intelligence Community
On 13 march 2012, the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) released a report culminating a years worth of interviews…
Are Public Clouds Complex Environments?
A recent analyst report suggests public clouds are prone to failure because they are inherently complex. However, just because there…
Of Baby Black Swans and the Race to Zero
Defined as extreme events with high impact, Black Swans are infrequent occurrences that pack a punch (i.e. in financial markets…
