Because It’s the Weekend: Cube-Solving Lego Robot
The world record for a human solving a Rubik's cube is 5.66 seconds. This robot, made from Lego Mindstorms and…
Decide.com – New Search Ideas for Unstructured Data
In this video from BizIntelligence.TV, University of Washington professor and entrepreneur Oren Etzioni describes his work in data searching innovation…
ggplot2 for Big Data
(Hadley Wickham, author of ggplot2 and several other R packages, guest blogs today about forthcoming big-data improvements to his R…
Data Mining Interview: Rob Hyndman
I recently discovered Cross Validated, a Q&A platform for statisticians and data miners. With Seth Rogers, Community Developer of Cross…
How to Speak Like a Data Scientist
A recent blog posted in MIT’s Technology Review explores how organizations are drowning in a sea of dat
Spike in the Social Conversation? Is your Social Customer Trying to Tell You Something?
Analyzing social media or enterprise text is not only about monitoring mentions but about understanding the ‘why’ behind a customer’s…
World Series Analytics
IBM and the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg Innovation Lab (AIL) have been collaborating on a project to apply…
Oracle Takes Endeca – a War of Acquisition?
I believe it was Forrester Research who coined the phrase "Unified Information Access (UIA)" back in a 2008 publication as…
BI Business Value – Timeliness or Consistency, Part 2
Having looked at timeliness in Part 1, let's turn our attention to consistency.
Bad Data Viz – That’s No Pie Chart
Take a look at this dreadful chart from BusinessInsider.com and see if you can figure out what it's trying to…
