Emotions, Beliefs and Analytics
When I first came across Data Mining and Machine Learning in 1997 I had no idea of the kind of…
Enterprise Search Hype: An Example
I was going through my alerts this morning for enterprise search and found this nugget in an interview with an…
In Return for your Email ID
Value exchange is your not-so-secret, secret ingredient in email marketing. Valuable information helps you earn the recipient’s attention, opens and…
Personalizing Advertising based on a User’s Click-Through Rate
According to Wikipedia: Click-through rate or CTR is a way of measuring the success of an online advertising campaign. A…
Expressor pre-announces a data loading benchmark leapfrog
Expressor Software plans to blow the Vertica/Syncsort “benchmark” out of the water, to wit What I know already is that…
Is the information economy too efficient?
Two posts that I read recently raise the question of whether the information economy has become too efficient.In “The Implications…
ParAccel’s market momentum
After my recent blog post, ParAccel is once again angry that I haven’t given it proper credit for it accomplishments.…
More from Vertica on data warehouse load speeds
Last month, when Vertica releases its “benchmark” of data warehouse load speeds, I didn’t realize it had previously released some…
Daniel Tunkelang idealizes Twitter
Daniel Tunkelang has a couple of recent posts decrying what amounts to, at least in his eyes, the abuse of…
Enterprise IT experts on Twitter
It was my birthday yesterday (New Year’s Day), and I remarked on Twitter that I seemed to be getting more…