On-Demand Index: YTD is in the green (and it’s not St Patty’s Day)
On-Demand Index spiked even higher than the jubilant market yesterday gaining 8.43%. With yesterday’s gain the On-Demand Index moved into…
The specific benefits of business intelligence in Insurance
IntroductionInsurance – specifically Property Casualty Insurance – is the industry that I have worked within for the last twelve years.…
Not MDM, Not Data Governance: Data Management.
photo by garybirnieHas everyone forgotten database development fundamentals?In the hubbub of MDM and data governance, everyone’s lost track of the…
Quality vs. Quantity
There are tons of old adages and clichés that can be applied to today’s post, the title is only one…
KXEN releases Social Network Analysis tool
KXEN, the automated model making software company added one more innovation by being one of the first major data mining…
Good Marketing / Bad Economy
It’s no surprise to hear these days about companies cutting budgets, implementing layoffs, and in some cases closing up shop. Nationally…
Text Analytics Summit: Early-Bird Discount
I’m giving a presentation on “Enabling Exploration through Text Analytics” at the 5th Annual Text Analytics Summit, which will take…
How do “cheap” camera stores do it?
Lots of these stores litter the sidewalk around Times Square here in NYC. They show recent models in their windows…
Understanding exponential growth as a fundamental driver of…
Understanding exponential growth as a fundamental driver of global warming, environmental destruction, peak oil and natural gas, water and arable…
Java writes files that Vista can’t find!
Or so it seemed. I was installing Jedit to see if they had fixed any of its annoying gnats. (Side…