Top 10 Cloud Computing Vendors
I came across an interesting article discussing and analysing cloud computing vendors. I was interested to see that the top…
Fantasy League Data Quality
For over 25 years, I have been playing fantasy league baseball and football. For those readers who are not familiar…
Machine Learning in R, in a nutshell
Josh Reich has created a concise R script demonstrating various machine-learning techniques in R with simple, self-contained examples. For example,…
Metrics and Numbers You Should Know if You Want to Measure Social Media ROI
In a previous post I talked the importance of understanding that ROI is not only about a financial return but…
Integrating customer preferences
I was talking to an interesting company today – TOA Technologies (review tomorrow) – and as we were talking we…
Who Wants Yesterday’s Papers?
Times are hard, especially for the traditional media. In Europe and the United States, numerous printed publications are running deficits…
Everybody’s on the Phone
I accidently left my cell phone at home this past weekend while out running errands… needless to say, I went…
Google and Failure-Tolerant Cultures
I recently read Andrew Chen’s interesting post, Built to Fail: How companies like Google, IDEO, and 37signals build failure-tolerant systems…
Interactive stock visualizations with R
Jeroen Ooms, who recently completed his Masters in Statistics at Utrech University, has created an outstanding web-based drag-and-drop application for…
From Baby-Sitting to Adoption – a Data Governance Perspective
Yesterday, Thomas L. Friedman posted an interesting New York Times op-ed column entitled “From Baby-Sitting to Adoption” about U.S. policy…