Derivatives and Transparency
Every time I think about the current financial crisis I come to the conclusion that the lack of transparency is…
Analytics and the Financial Markets
On previous posts, i explained ways to analyze the financial markets by using data mining and text mining techniques. I…
Humans and Machines: Collaborators or Competitors?
Last week, Hal Daume wrote a nice post entitled “Supplanting vs Augmenting Human Language Capabilities“. Drawing an analogy between natural…
Data Governance, The War on Drugs, and Little Blue Pills
A few days ago Reese wrote a blog about a piece he’d read that got him fired up. The writer…
Telltale signs of SOA governance deficit
Are there any “telltale signs” that an organization is missing the governance boat when it comes to efforts to effectively…
Taking Advantage of the Failure Framework
For a long time I planned to write a case study on NetBeans and the innovations we brought to the…
Reflecting on AltaVista
Today is Dec 1, and it seems like an appropriate day to reflect on DEC’s one-time foray into web search:…
Software Agents and Rationality
Back when I was an undergraduate (yes, a long long time ago), there was a lot of excitement about software…
One Hit Wonders
We’ve conducted over 30 Panel of Peers workshops this year, meeting many new people and learning a lot about the…
Good Data on Data
The creation of Good Data was very much influenced by Tim O’Reilly’s post “What Would Google Do?” published back in…
