Netflix zip-code data: How about political overlay?
I've been enjoying exploring this New York Times chart on Netflix rentals, zip code by zip code. The top rental…
Can You “Near Me Now”?
Weren’t we just talking about what’s different about mobile search use cases and about how to make web search more…
Because it’s Friday: Gravity Wells
It's a little strange to see a web comic come up with such interesting visualizations, but xkcd has followed up…
Data correlation: Used-car customers drop cell-phone service?
I pay Verizon about $1,500 a year for family cell-phone service. If you figure that one-third of that goes into…
Data Mining and Terrorism… Counterpoint
In a recent posting to this Web log (Data Mining and Privacy...again, Jan-04-2010), Dean Abbott made several points regarding the…
Tomorrow’s smartest way to pay
Credit cards used to be branded as the high-flyer’s way to pay, partly because they originally targeted the business jet…
Could Data Governance Help the War on Terror?
In which Jill wags her finger at the silos—ours, theirs, and yours. “Our intelligence community failed to connect those dots,…
What’s ahead for market research in 2010?
Looking back over the last year in market research offers an opportunity to consider just which transformations, new ideas, industry…
Mathematics of an insurgency
Here's a seven-minute TED talk by Sean Gourley, a physicist, on a data analysis of the Iraq war. As Matthew…
Data Mining and Privacy…again
A google search tonight on "data mining" referred to the latest DHS Privacy Office 2009 Data Mining Report to Congress.…