Interview: Jon Peck SPSS
I was in the middle of interviewing people as well as helping the good people in my new role as…
Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop Announces Version 3.0
Today Alltop announced version 3.0. Alltop is an RSS aggregating site, “like a digital news rack” which organizes sites according…
Data modeling infrastructure in data mining
I've had two inquiries in the last day relating to the building of data infrastructure between the database and predictive…
What data mining software to buy?
This post (http://www.dmreview.com/issues/2007_46/10001040-1.html?portal=analytics) is an interesting example of the assessment of analytics software. The key paragraph is the conclusion where…
Data Mining: Interesting Ethical Questions
Data mining permits useful extrapolation from sometimes obscure clues. Information which human experts have ignored as irrelevant has been eagerly…
What is Predictive Analytics?
I just saw this link about the difference between BI and Predictive Analytics. This comes on the heels of a…
Another Moneyball quote
Gotta get back in the habit of posting...A quick way is to post another quote from Moneyball that I really…
Data Mining: Widespread Acceptance When?
Data mining is widely accepted today among industries which have a history of "management by numbers", such as banking, pure…
What topics would you like to see covered at a KDD conference?
This is your chance to voice your opinion!What topics, sessions, or tutorials would be most useful for you at a…
What Makes a Data Mining Skeptic?
I just found this post expressing skepticism about data mining (I'll let go the comment about predictive analytics being the…