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…
Change is here. Goodbye to Yahoo!, and Hello to Barnes and Noble [4]
Things sure have been quiet on the blog. Turns out, I was spending many of my spare cycles on some…
7 Mistakes In Enterprise Data Management You Can’t Afford to Make: Speaking at DAMA WI & DAMA Chicago
I will be speaking at DAMA WI on Tuesday, 18 Aug 2009 about Enterprise Data Management: & Mistakes You Can’t…
The General Theory of Data Quality
In one of the famous 1905 Annus Mirabilis Papers On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, Albert Einstein published what would…
