Death Of The Relational Database
A recent entry by Tony Bain in his excellent 'Innovations in Data Management' blog caught me a little by surprise.…
Relational Databases Get a Hard Time
Image via WikipediaThe NoSQL event has triggered a bit of a hard time for the RDBMS the last week. I…
The election in Iran and some real data analysis
Syndicated from BeyeNetworkIn 2005, Mr Ahmadinejad got 17 million votes and in 2009 he got 24 million.The question is, where…
Resolving Many-to-Many Relationships
Ever have one of those long, back and forth email exchanges where when you’re done you feel as if you’ve…
First Look – IBM and SPSS
I got a chance to catch up with the folks from IBM/Cognos to discuss their (fairly) recent announcement of a…
Great Examples of US Government BI Transparency
We’re clearly entering a new era in government transparency, and we can hope that allowing citizens to access information interactively…
R makes a T-shirt
Here's a new use for R: designing T-shirts for a band: Despite having a cool name, "The Probable Error of…
New Data Mining Book Out
The new Nisbet, Elder, and Miner book is out now, and has been receiving good reviews on Amazon. A sampling…
Mathematics Invades the Marketing Kingdom
Think marketing doesn’t have much to do with mathematics? Mathematics is giving some companies a competitive edge in better understanding…
Sun and Oracle
The recent acquisition of Sun by Oracle has raised a lot of speculative discussion about the latter vendor’s strategic pursuits.…