Month: February 2010

WSDM 2010: Day 2

Unfortunately, I woke up this morning rather under the weather, so I’m…

Daniel Tunkelang Daniel Tunkelang 5 Min Read

Huffington Post: Crawling with data addicts

The Huffington Post has recently passed the Washington Post in traffic. It…

StephenBaker1 StephenBaker1 4 Min Read

Microsoft takes on Google and IBM in science cloud

Microsoft, the Times reports, is offering scientists free access to its cloud…

StephenBaker1 StephenBaker1 4 Min Read

Python Programs for Non-Python People

Python programs written to run in BEGIN PROGRAM blocks are easy to…

Editor SDC Editor SDC 5 Min Read

Accenture study: Companies structured for gut-thinking, not analytics

An Accenture study released today has some grim news for the analytically-minded.…

StephenBaker1 StephenBaker1 3 Min Read

Ode to Initiate Systems

In which Jill pays homage to a class act. The rumors of…

JillDyche JillDyche 6 Min Read

Stamen Design: Illustrating the physics of information

Ben Cerveny of Stamen Designs was speaking before me at the Webtrends…

StephenBaker1 StephenBaker1 4 Min Read

Mapping the Massachusetts election upset with R, ctd

Last week we looked at an analysis done in R by the…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 2 Min Read

Is your legacy modernization program just “forward to the 70s”?

Phil Murphey, over at Forrester, had a post on  Apps Modernization –…

JamesTaylor JamesTaylor 4 Min Read

Freescalin’ at the Gartner BI Summit

This week finds me at the Gartner BI Summit in London on…

TeradataEMEA TeradataEMEA 8 Min Read