Visualizing Lexical Novelty in Literature
Novels are full of new characters, new locations and new expressions. The discourse between characters involves new ideas being exchanged.…
Rules Based Decision Making Shouldn’t Be Followed Religiously
A rules based, structured decision making approach works for many occasions, especially when choices and outcomes are relatively well documented…
Getting Ready for the Post-Season: Numerati Baseball
I love baseball, and I defend it stoutly against all those who complain that it's boring. But anyone who can…
The Social Web as a Customer Support Channel
I just had an experience that to me, typifies what I expect out of companies these days for product support.…
An App Model Approach to Big Data
According to The American Dialect Society, an app is “the shortened slang term for a computer or smart phone application.”…
Analytics Conferences Gone Wild!
As a result of the attention business analytics has received in recent years, we’re seeing a proliferation of conferences tied…
PAW/TAW – The Most Important Influencers in Analytics
The Most Important Influencers in Analytics Predictive Analytics World and Text Analytics World
How Mobile Analytics Can Help Marketers
As we gear up for the release of the “Moneyball” movie next week, let’s start this mobile analytics post with…
Benefits of Private Cloud Computing: Compliant & Cost-Effective
When it comes to security and compliance, private cloud computing trumps the public cloud. According to a 2011 study by the…
Trillion Triple Semantic Database
The Semantic Web captures the semantics, or meaning, of data, and machines are enabled to interact with that meta data.…
