Month: October 2009

DQ-Tip: “…Go talk with the people using the data”

Data Quality (DQ) Tips is an OCDQ regular segment. Each DQ-Tip is…

JimHarris JimHarris 3 Min Read

Tips on surviving R

John Mount from Win-Vector LLC gave a very interesting and entertaining talk…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 3 Min Read

Are Duplicate Tweets Spam?

The Twitterverse is all a-twitter with a new controversy: Twitter has rolled…

Daniel Tunkelang Daniel Tunkelang 5 Min Read

Data Modeling with Generalizations – The Tool Issue

A bunch of factors have converged lately on the topic of generalized…

KarenLopez KarenLopez 5 Min Read

Marketing Lessons Learned From Micro-Finance In India

Besides Wall Street bankers, the poor of the world need access to…

PaulBarsch1 PaulBarsch1 7 Min Read

Aggregating Tags

One of the funnest parts of any web analytics role is instrumentation:…

Editor SDC Editor SDC 7 Min Read

Who knows what happiness lurks in the hearts of men? Facebook knows.

Have you heard about the Facebook Gross National Happiness Index?  On Monday,…

DavidBakken DavidBakken 8 Min Read

Oracle OpenWorld Update #2 – Oracle’s use of social media

It's a sign of the times I guess. I mean, social media…

mfauscette mfauscette 4 Min Read

Go Shopping, Be Social

If you’re into search startups, then today’s a great day to check…

Daniel Tunkelang Daniel Tunkelang 2 Min Read

Open standards for data mining and the need for training material

PMML awareness is growing. Many companies have recently joined the DMG (Data…

MichaelZeller MichaelZeller 2 Min Read