Keeping up with the Joneses
The idea of benchmarking isn’t new. We constantly compare our homes, our cars, and our jobs to those around us.…
A variety of resources
I thought I’d share some resources I use around the web and in print...enjoy: Just found this guy, “Oz” from…
Privacy Legislation and Affiliate Marketing
New legislation regarding consumer privacy on the web has recently come to light and is expected to be decided upon…
The dangers of scores in decision making
Copyright © 2009 James Taylor. Visit the original article at The dangers of scores in decision making.Last week I responded…
July 2009 Early Indications: Love & Work part II
Taking as our cue Freud's famous dictum that people are defined by their love and their work, last month's letter…
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…
