Big Data
Several month's ago a short video appeared on YouTube with an interview of LinkedIn's Chief Scientist DJ Patil. In it he discusses…
Selling to enterprises
For some reason when you are selling information technology, big companies are referred to as “enterprises.” I’m guessing the word…
WSDM 2010: Day 2
Unfortunately, I woke up this morning rather under the weather, so I’m having to resort to remotely reporting on the…
Huffington Post: Crawling with data addicts
The Huffington Post has recently passed the Washington Post in traffic. It got 410 million page views last month (and…
Microsoft takes on Google and IBM in science cloud
Microsoft, the Times reports, is offering scientists free access to its cloud computing. This is important because scientists are grappling…
Python Programs for Non-Python People
Python programs written to run in BEGIN PROGRAM blocks are easy to write and add lots of functionality to IBM…
Accenture study: Companies structured for gut-thinking, not analytics
An Accenture study released today has some grim news for the analytically-minded. The survey of 600 senior managers shows that…
Ode to Initiate Systems
In which Jill pays homage to a class act. The rumors of IBM’s acquisition of MDM vendor Initiate Systems were…
Stamen Design: Illustrating the physics of information
Ben Cerveny of Stamen Designs was speaking before me at the Webtrends Engage conference yesterday. Stamen, an eight-person shop in…
Mapping the Massachusetts election upset with R, ctd
Last week we looked at an analysis done in R by the good folks at Offensive Politics, looking at the…