Lattice and ggplot graphics, side by side
One of the confusing things about R for newcomers is the graphics system. Or rather, systems: there are three major…
Who are more effective – Specialists or Generalists?
In the book The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can…
Robert McNamara: good analytics, bad judgment
Tom Davenport on former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and how he failed despite good analytics.McNamara was a hedgehog rather…
Small Pieces Tightly Joined: Open Source in the Cloud
It’s not a shock to state that cloud computing will disrupt the business model of commercial software. But how it…
KDD 2009 Panel Report: Open Standards and Cloud Computing
Leading Experts Debate Emerging Trends for Predictive Analytics and Data Mining.At KDD 2009 in Paris, the leading conference on Knowledge…
How to use Symantec products to stop buying (more) storage
Symantec Corp. 20330 Stevens Creek Blvd. Cupertino, CA 95014 We looked at several products available from Symantec to help provide…
A Big Cryptographic Boost for On-Demand BI and Extranets?
A recent cryptographic breakthrough made by Craig Gentry that potentially has huge consequences for business intelligence. One of the big…
Rmetrics presentations online
Presentations from the Third R/Rmetrics User and Developer Workshop recently held in Switzerland are now available online. Check the Abstracts…
Fiskateers
A few weeks ago we posted about the success Liz Claiborne New York saw through the creation of an online…
Scoring data in ADAPA via Web Services in SSIS 2008 (SQL Server Integration Services)
Data integration is a big part of putting predictive models to work. ADAPA on the Amazon cloud allows for easy…