What does the Oracle-Sun news mean for enterprise CTOs?
OK, sometimes I get emotionally attached to great technology. I need to watch that, I know humans are what is…
Using R to analyze lifetimes of business systems
Here's an interesting use of R outside the "usual" statistics domains: using advanced analytics to estimate how long a typical…
Day II: 10th Annual Panel of Peers Conference
Yesterday included great networking and sharing of ideas… it even spilled over into our dinner event at STATS. Here’s the…
New Command to Focus on Cybersecurity for DoD and IC
The Wall Street Journal just ran an article titled: "New Military Command to Focus on Cybersecurity." In it they…
How to Speak Visualization
In English, we use many different words to describe the same basic objects. In one survey, researchers Dieth and Orton…
Python and Productivity
One of the main benefits of programmability is the ability to extend and automate SPSS Statistics capabilities. I’d like to…
Maps are Just Another Element
For the VizML visualization system used in SPSS products, maps are simply another element that can be used within the…
Viewer Outline and Title Content and Formatting
As I mentioned last time, some production users spend a lot of time editing and formatting the text in the…
A Lesson about Optimization
In my last post, I wrote about the productivity achievable with Python, telling the story of creating the SPSSINC TURF…
Stylin’
In my last blog post I shared some templates that added functionality — specifically, maps. That is one use of…
