What’s in Data.gov? A recent article by Tim Berners-Lee,…
What’s in Data.gov? A recent article by Tim Berners-Lee, “Putting Government Data online“, has attracted significant interest to the datasets…
Books on my desk…
Over the years I have purchased a few data mining, machine learning, and even statistics books. I'll confess that I…
Rate This
As an experiment, I am enabling WordPress.com’s rating widget on my blog posts. A graphic like the one below now…
Nail-biting finish for Netflix Prize
30 days ago, BellKor Pragmatic Chaos submitted a prize-qualifying entry for the Netflix Prize. According to the rules, competitors had…
Does the emergence of the tech mega-vendor driven economy mean the end of innovation?
I get asked this question a lot, especially since I've started talking more about the emerging mega-vendor economy that is…
Recreating Another New York Times Chart
At the recent Turning Statistics into Knowledge conference (here's a synopsis), I saw The New York Times' Amanda Cox present…
New Social Media Section
My Keynote Articles page gathers together links to my more substantial blog posts in one place and groups them into…
The Wisdom of Failure
Earlier this month, I had the honor of being interviewed by Ajay Ohri on his blog Decision Stats, which is…
What will your Laptop will look like in 2015?
Slides, just like your cellphone. CIO magazine recently published a great review of laptop technologies titled “Meet the Laptop You’ll…
#18: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:Less is moreWe live…