Experimentation, Open Source and Big Data
An interesting article in BusinessWeek on Big Data recently caught my eye. The article mentions different applications that allow organizations to…
CRISP-DM Data Mining Methodology in Hypertext Form
CRISP-DM – Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining – is the best known data mining methodology out there. It’s been…
Rethinking the Outsourced Cloud, Part II: 2011 Benefits of Cloud Adoption
A recent Wall Street Journal article reporting on cloud security details the trends of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) when…
Support Vector Clustering: An Approach to Overcome the Limits of K-means
Some time ago, I posted a banal case to show the limits of K-mean clustering. A follower gave us a…
Essential Elements of Data Mining
This is my attempt to clarify what Data Mining is and what it isn’t. According to Wikipedia, “In philosophy, essentialism…
Data Management: Reaching Into the Cloud
In a form of “shadow IT”, Line-of-Business groups have been turning to cloud-based services to quickly set up technology solutions…
Data Visualization Doesn’t Need to be Biased
At the FlowingData blog, data visualization commentator and Visualize This author Nathan Yau lists 5 misconceptions about visualization:
Three Implications for the Rise of E-Readers
For the first time ever, Amazon.com sold more electronic than printed books.