Netflix zip-code data: How about political overlay?
I've been enjoying exploring this New York Times chart on Netflix rentals, zip code by zip code. The top rental…
Playing in Traffic
I am inspired by the article by David Fisher, Director of the Defense Department's Business Transformation Agency, titled Performance Management…
On Holiday in Snowy Sheffield
I have a confession to make: I didn’t check my e-mail once between going on holiday on the 23rd December…
Bay Area User Group: R-Powered Web Apps
For those in the San Francisco area, tomorrow night's Bay Area R User Group meeting -- to be held at…
Disappointed for MySQL
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Like many I was disappointed, yet not surprised, that the EC formally logged their…
Hyper-local
The recent rumors around Google acquiring Yelp (which of course have subsequently fallen through) and my recent use of several…
Is 2010 The Year Asia Cuts the Apron Strings?
It has been many years since I last worked in China and a couple of recent announcements led me to…
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…
