Daniel Lemire on What Makes Database Indexes Work
Daniel Lemire has a great post today entitled “Understanding what makes database indexes work“. There’s nothing that should be surprising…
Mind the Gender Gap
We all know that men and women are different… but one of the differences often overlooked are the ways each…
Social Media Truths
credit img This is a follow up to my post on “Social Media Myths” and the topic was recommended by…
No Correlation Between Reading Difficulty and Popularity?
Paul Ogilvie just started blogging at mSpoke, and his first post asks “What makes a blog post popular? Part I: Comparing…
Transparency 2.0
Anyone who doubts the impact of blogging, Twitter, and other Web 2.0 technologies would do well to read yesterday’s New…
Perfect Survey Series: Planning & Executing
To round out last week’s Perfect Survey Series we’re offering a structured approach to help you get started, make sure…
Business Intelligence Goes Back to the Future
Seth Grimes has a great piece in Intelligent Enterprise entitled “BI at 50 Turns Back to the Future“. He reminds…
Why Standards Matter
A month ago, the Why BPEL Matters article was posted on IT|Redux, and triggered a wave of discussions rarely seen…
Why Does Latent Semantic Analysis Work?
Warning to regular readers: this post is a bit more theoretical than average for this blog. Peter Turney has a…
All the News that’s Fit to Text Mine
My friend Evan Sandhaus at the New York Times Company told me the other day that the paper of record…
