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"…
Student Travel Grants for useR! 2011
For students planning to attend the annual worldwide R user conference, useR! 2011, travel grants are available to help defray…
First Look – Toovio
Toovio was founded by a group of ex-database marketers who have extensive consulting and implementation experience with various marketing, decision…
