No Money, No Problem!
I just returned from a business trip to India. I landed in Mumbai on October 2nd, a Friday and accidentally…
DQ-Tip: “…Go talk with the people using the data”
Data Quality (DQ) Tips is an OCDQ regular segment. Each DQ-Tip is a clear and concise data quality pearl of…
Tips on surviving R
John Mount from Win-Vector LLC gave a very interesting and entertaining talk at this week's Bay Area User Group Meeting,…
Are Duplicate Tweets Spam?
The Twitterverse is all a-twitter with a new controversy: Twitter has rolled out a new feature that blocks duplicate tweets.…
Data Modeling with Generalizations – The Tool Issue
A bunch of factors have converged lately on the topic of generalized versus specific data modeling approaches. I’m working through…
Marketing Lessons Learned From Micro-Finance In India
Besides Wall Street bankers, the poor of the world need access to financial liquidity, too. But loaning money to individuals…
Aggregating Tags
One of the funnest parts of any web analytics role is instrumentation: the tagging of the various parts of the…
Who knows what happiness lurks in the hearts of men? Facebook knows.
Have you heard about the Facebook Gross National Happiness Index? On Monday, October 12, the Times ran an article (by…
Oracle OpenWorld Update #2 – Oracle’s use of social media
It's a sign of the times I guess. I mean, social media is everywhere these days and OpenWorld isn't an…
Go Shopping, Be Social
If you’re into search startups, then today’s a great day to check out what a couple of them are up…