Hyperactive Data Quality (Second Edition)
In the first edition of Hyperactive Data Quality, I discussed reactive and proactive approaches using the data quality lake analogy…
Denial of access
I hear a story like the one I heard this week and I want to ask the apparent villain why.…
Google’s Chief Economist Hal Varian Talks Stats 101
In an interview with CNET’s Tom Krazit, Google Chief Economist Hal Varian made a nice argument regarding the relative advantages…
Your Friend the Algorithm
With exponential trends of data growth and computational power colliding, the world is literally drowning in data. There’s too much…
R 2.9.2 scheduled for August 24
Following the usual six-monthly release cycle, the next update to R is scheduled to be released on August 24 in…
Big Data and Real-time Structured Data Analytics -…
Big Data and Real-time Structured Data Analytics - O’Reilly RadarThe emergence of sensors as sources of Big Data highlights the…
Google’s coding standards for R
For any software application in production and produced by a development team, coding standards are an essential tool for promoting…
Terabytes of trees
I saw a very interesting talk at hosted by the SF Bay ACM last night. Google engineer Josh Herbach talked…
An Able Grape at the Helm of Twitter Search
While I am an avid Twitter user (and apparently a tradeable commodity in a “Fantasy Twitter” game that some friends…
Baseball is life…
A while back I wrote a blog about the similarities of a little league baseball team and how we conduct…
