When Crisis Hits, Technology is Dumped, and Lizard Brains Take Over
Think of technological progress for a minute. Super computers, cloud computing, high speed networks, and advanced algorithms probably come to…
The Future of Social Networks
When the telephone was invented the first networks were private, typically between rich individuals and their industrial interests. Pretty quickly,…
What is Social Media Research?
You know, this seems to be a simple question that ought to have a simple answer. Unfortunately, it doesn’t. I’ve…
Social Software, Feature or Product?
We have this debate running about social software and whether it's, for the most part anyway, a set of features…
Because It’s the Weekend: Cube-Solving Lego Robot
The world record for a human solving a Rubik's cube is 5.66 seconds. This robot, made from Lego Mindstorms and…
Decide.com – New Search Ideas for Unstructured Data
In this video from BizIntelligence.TV, University of Washington professor and entrepreneur Oren Etzioni describes his work in data searching innovation…
Big Data – Big Change or Big Hype?
In the Information part of Information Technology, Big Data is the Big Hit of 2011. It's also a wonderful phrase…
ggplot2 for Big Data
(Hadley Wickham, author of ggplot2 and several other R packages, guest blogs today about forthcoming big-data improvements to his R…
Data Mining Interview: Rob Hyndman
I recently discovered Cross Validated, a Q&A platform for statisticians and data miners. With Seth Rogers, Community Developer of Cross…
How to Speak Like a Data Scientist
A recent blog posted in MIT’s Technology Review explores how organizations are drowning in a sea of dat