The Case Against Triage
In an episode of the popular American TV show ER, an alcoholic patient with political connections is moved to the…
Data Darwinism: Market Driven Data Quality
Just trying a little contrarian thought this week … Have you ever noticed how much time and energy goes in…
Is Watson less efficient than a human?
When it comes to computing efficiency, humans beings blow Watson away. As Jonah Lehrer points out, the human brain requires…
The Future of Business Intelligence
Keynote address to the Next Generation Data Warehousing Conference, IDG Korea , Seoul, South Korea, February 16th 2011 I presented my…
Tuesday Night Massacre Hurt Watson’s Ratings
Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy reports that interest in Jeopardy's Man-vs-Machine match dipped a bit for the final of the three-evening…
Data Mining Book Review: Competing on Analytics
After reading the excellent book Analytics at Work, I went back in time to read the first book of Davenport…
Some R Package Updates
Packages for R are being added and updated so frequently now that it's tough to keep up with them all…
Dear Watson: What is life?
Scouring Twitter for Watson stuff, I just came across some deep questions for the machine from @larrylugo, such as:
Impersonating our new computer overlords
There's been a lot of news recently (here in the US at least) of the triumph of the supercomputer "Watson"…