#1: Here’s a thought…

The first in an occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:Hadoop…

brianfarnan1
8 Min Read

Dos and Donts for getting help

This article was written for the IBM developerWorks forum, but the general principles apply equally to posting to the REvolution…

DavidMSmith
1 Min Read

You Really Have to See This: From MIT Media Lab

Words can hardly describe how neat this technology is.  I'm excited and enthused for many reasons, including the potential power…

BobGourley
1 Min Read

Getting inside a CIO’s head

I was disappointed to see that our nation’s first chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, is having some major distractions, with…

JoeMcKendrick
1 Min Read

History

It's informative to see the history of automated trading to realize that it hasn't been around for very long so…

Editor SDC
3 Min Read

Should Public Safety Departments be Merged?

Not unusual by any means, another story about merging police and fire departments appeared in yesterday’s issue of the Mercury…

ariherzog
4 Min Read

Blog + Twitter vs. Aardvark: A Rematch

It’s clear that my blog + Twitter vs. Aardvark challenge yesterday wasn’t much of a challenge, so I’m trying again.…

Daniel Tunkelang
3 Min Read

Define ‘enterprise mashup’ and win a $50 gift card

In this space, we argue a lot about definitions (or lack thereof) of terms and buzzwords, so it’s refreshing to…

JoeMcKendrick
1 Min Read

First Look – Incanto

I got a chance to look at a new decision product this week - Incanto from Qualia Systems in the…

JamesTaylor
7 Min Read

R for psychological research

The Personality Project site at Northwestern University includes an extensive set of pages on using R for psychological research. Over…

DavidMSmith
1 Min Read