Month: February 2011

Design Goals for Developing Distributed Applications

In my last post (Wide open spaces) we discussed the elegance of…

jparnitzke jparnitzke 9 Min Read

The Case Against Triage

In an episode of the popular American TV show ER, an alcoholic…

MIKE20 MIKE20 5 Min Read

Data Darwinism: Market Driven Data Quality

Just trying a little contrarian thought this week … Have you ever…

Jim MacLennan Jim MacLennan 5 Min Read

Is Watson less efficient than a human?

When it comes to computing efficiency, humans beings blow Watson away. As…

StephenBaker1 StephenBaker1 2 Min Read

The Future of Business Intelligence

Keynote address to the Next Generation Data Warehousing Conference, IDG Korea , Seoul,…

Steve Bennett Steve Bennett 6 Min Read

Tuesday Night Massacre Hurt Watson’s Ratings

Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy reports that interest in Jeopardy's Man-vs-Machine match dipped…

StephenBaker1 StephenBaker1 2 Min Read

Data Mining Book Review: Competing on Analytics

After reading the excellent book Analytics at Work, I went back in…

SandroSaitta SandroSaitta 2 Min Read

Some R Package Updates

Packages for R are being added and updated so frequently now that…

DavidMSmith DavidMSmith 1 Min Read

Dear Watson: What is life?

Scouring Twitter for Watson stuff, I just came across some deep questions…

StephenBaker1 StephenBaker1 3 Min Read