Cool Data Visualization – What is That?
Want to help your organzization optimize operations, extract market opportunity, see what customers think? Provide a visual representation in a…
The Very Model of a Modern DQ General
With apologies to fellow fans of Gilbert and Sullivan and Sir Henry Lytton, I offer the following Data Quality (DQ)…
Analyzing Twitter
Among the mainstream trends I have seen emerging it seems Twitter is the flavor of 2009, just like LinkedIn was…
Physicists, models, and the credit crisis, ctd.
Allen Engelhardt, physicist and former quant, provides a thoughtful response to my post the other day, where I asked, "Do…
Chrome Experiments: Online Data Visualization
Here are some nice data visualization methods elaborated in http://www.chromeexperiments.com/.I created one using Social Collider for searching @smartdataco and generated this…
Could There Be a Correlation Between Search Engine Queries Getting Longer and Blog Post Titles Getting Longer?
Frederic Lardinois opines: This is an interesting trend, and it could be interpreted in a variety of way. This could…
How to Simply Explain Twitter
“It is part text messaging and part blogging, with the ability to update on your cellphone or computer, but constrained…
Do you have obsessive-compulsive data quality (OCDQ)?
Obsessive-compulsive data quality (OCDQ) affects millions of people worldwide. The most common symptoms of OCDQ are: Obsessively verifying data used…
Underestimating the tails
Collective wisdom about the location of Ground Zero for the credit crisis seems to be coalescing around AIG's Financial Products…
Memo to Steve Ballmer: Just Ask Them!
Dina Bass from Bloomberg reports today that Steve Ballmer is talking smack about Google: “Google does have to be all…
