GigaOm article on R, Big Data and Data Science
I'm really pleased that an article I wrote, "5 real-world uses of big data", has been published in the widely-read…
Visualizing Kickstarter Projects with R
Kickstarter, a social funding platform where individuals can chip in cash to get a worthy project going, just celebrated their…
A Movie Script for the CIO’s IT Department
Imagine a major motion picture studio contracted you to write a movie script as a screenwriter on the topic of…
Growth in data-related jobs
At job-search site indeed.com, you can take a look at trends in the use of keywords used in job postings.…
The Ideology Divide Between Intuition and Fact-based Decisions
In the USA we witness an ideology divide between its two political parties – the Republicans and Democrats. I will…
Social Business Intelligence Q & A with Yellowfin CEO Glen Rabie
The use of Social and Collaborative Business Intelligence (BI) will allow information to be directly linked to decisions made within…
Using R and Motion Charts to analyze financial data
We've noted before that with the RGoogleVis package, it's easy to make motion charts in R, and create a web-based…
Fast Logistic Regression on Big Data with Commodity Hardware? No Problem.
You might think that doing advanced statistical analysis on Big Data is out of reach for those of us without…