Think “Conditions” When Estimating Probability
Often in modeling any system from complex to basic, we think about the “assumptions” that underpin the model and call…
PMML 4.0 is here!
The DMG (Data Mining Group) has just released PMML 4.0, the latest and greatest version of the Predictive Model Markup…
Spam in the Twitterverse
I’ve noted in the past that “real-time” alerting systems, in contrast to search engines that place less emphasis on immediacy,…
ggplot2 documentation, get it while it’s hot
Did you know that you can find extensive documentation about the awesome ggplot2 graphics package for R at author Hadley…
First Look – IBM/ILOG BRMS 7.0
As previewed yesterday, ILOG (now an IBM company) is releasing the 7.0 products of their business rule management system (BRMS)…
US support for gay marriage, graphed
This chart, documenting the change of support for gay marriage in the US on a state-by-state basis, has been doing…
Join the Club
We recently visited with one of our retail customers; their multi-channel approach includes paper, brick and email. They email quite…
Statistics and the Iranian election, ctd.
More statisticians are looking at the Iranian voting data for signs of fraud. Walter Mebane (University of Michigan) looks at…
Wikipedia: Play The Ball, Not The Man
Today’s Freakonomics blog in the New York Times has a nice post entitled “By a Bunch of Nobodies: A Q&A…
Twinterview – Interviewed about Twitter via Twitter
I was just interviewed via Twitter by Dado Van Peteghem of Insites Consulting in Belgium. Sort of weird doing an…
