OOBE-DQ, Where Are You?
Much of enterprise software is often viewed as a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) product, which, in theory, is supposed to provide…
Ensemble Prediction
I wrote a note on how to combine multiple predictors with only marginally higher than baseline accuracy to construct an…
Can You “Near Me Now”?
Weren’t we just talking about what’s different about mobile search use cases and about how to make web search more…
What Pepsi Ditching the Super Bowl Signals for Online Brand Advertising
For the first time in 23 years, Pepsi will not be advertising in The Super Bowl – the championships of…
What’s Hot & What’s Next in Retail Intelligence? Find Out From Teradata
The retail industry’s big annual show sponsored by the National Retail Federation opens Monday in New York – and Teradata…
Because it’s Friday: Gravity Wells
It's a little strange to see a web comic come up with such interesting visualizations, but xkcd has followed up…
Data correlation: Used-car customers drop cell-phone service?
I pay Verizon about $1,500 a year for family cell-phone service. If you figure that one-third of that goes into…
Data Mining and Terrorism… Counterpoint
In a recent posting to this Web log (Data Mining and Privacy...again, Jan-04-2010), Dean Abbott made several points regarding the…
Tomorrow’s smartest way to pay
Credit cards used to be branded as the high-flyer’s way to pay, partly because they originally targeted the business jet…
Could Data Governance Help the War on Terror?
In which Jill wags her finger at the silos—ours, theirs, and yours. “Our intelligence community failed to connect those dots,…