What is a good classification accuracy in data mining?
What a good question! Or what a bad question should I say. In fact, this question is not a good…
Robotic folder: mastery in a domain
If you haven't already seen this neat freak of a robot folding towels in a Berkeley lab, it's worth a…
Special automotive track at the Enterprise Intelligence Summit
There will be a special automotive track at the Teradata Enterprise Intelligence Summit in Berlin: Representatives from Daimler and component…
Seven Ways to Rejuvenate Your Marketing Database
A visit to so many marketers shows people poring over paper reports, having meetings about the validity of the reports,…
Cloud Computing’s RAIC? What’s that?
Well over a year ago, in a conversation with Alexis Richardson, I came up with a catchy acronym to articulate…
Persuasion in simple terms
Partly to give the Berlin conference with its very informative sessions and presentations a lighter note, partly because we are…
How the Numerati are killing baseball
An Utley homer: The computer probably called for the pitch 3 inches to the right. Optimization may be terrific for…
A free book on Geostatistical Mapping with R
Tomislav Hengl of the University of Amsterdam has published new book, A Practical Guide to Geostatistical Mapping. It's jam-packed with 291…
Stupid Executives Should Be Fired !
April 1, 2010 A potential risk is lurking for opportunistic organizations losing sales. That is, there is a danger for…
AT&T studies user data to cope with iPhone crunch
An excellent piece in the WSJ (behind subscriber wall) about AT&T's push to cope with the exploding data traffic of…


