Is the RDBMS doomed (yada yada yada) ?
Image by Snooch2TheNooch via FlickrI was speaking with Michael Stonebraker this morning. I mentioned that lately many have been referencing…
Who should Jean-Claude Trichet call?
How is private consumption developing in the US? Alan Greenspan, the former Fed’s chairman, once said that if he wanted…
T2: Judgment Day for Twine?
Nova Spivack, CEO and founder of Radar Networks, just released a preview (see above) announcing Twine 2.0, a semantic search…
How to Create and Deploy Effective Metrics
I’m trying to catch up on a big backlog of materials and documents and documents that I’ve found useful… Here’s…
Better customer service, better results with predictive analytics
I recently hosted a webcast for Smart Data Collective titled “Putting Customer Value to Work: What Predictive Analytics Can Do…
Bing Visual Search Beta
Bing launched a Visual Search beta today that is fun to play with. The name may be a bit misleading…
Visualizing Hierarchical Cluster Models
The blog Getting Genetics Done features tips for analyzing genomic data, such as this recent post on hierarchical clustering with…
I’ll show you mine if you show me yours…
Analysts don't usually quote predictive model performance. Data Mining within each industry is different, and even within the telecommunications industry…
Micro vs. Macro Information Retrieval
The Probably Irrelevant blog has been quiet for a while, but I was happy to see a new post there…
The Map is not the Territory
“The word is not the thing, the map is not the territory” is a key principle of General Semantics and…