IBM Introduces “Smarter Commerce”
Today IBM announced a new initiative called "Smarter Commerce" that ties together $2.5 Billion in acquisitions, organic software assets and…
Am I Being Too Optimistic About How Companies Will Use Social Media Data?
“I think you are being too optimistic about how companies will use the data from social media.”
Energy map from the huge quake and tsunami
Visual data from Friday's earthquake, this is the energy map from the huge quake and tsunami that hit Japan on…
Estimating Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) Projects
In the consulting world, project estimation is a critical component required for the delivery of a successful project. If you…
Analyzing big data with Revolution R Enterprise
This post from Sherry LaMonica is the first in a series from members of the Revolution Analytics Engineering team —…
Rexer Data Mining Survey Results
Karl Rexer has just released the results from his annual survey of data miners – RexerAnalytics.com/Data-Miner-Survey-Results-2010.html. This year 735 data…
A Tale of Two Seas
A friend of mine sent an interesting article recently which highlights the differences between the Dead Sea and Sea of…
SAS Vertical Strategy
Focus of the presentation from Russ Cobb was Banking, Insurance, Retail and Government. Banking first. Lots of releases this year…


