Why XML is incompatible with big data
Mike Driscoll lays out his misadventures using XML for managing large amounts of data: it's too verbose and slows down…
It’s Time to Take Your Data’s Temperature
Don’t look now but there’s a large wave of data at your company’s doorstep. It comes in the form of…
How FlightCaster Squeezes Predictions from Flight Data
During the last several years, an increasing number of systems within government and industry have been collecting massive amounts of…
The Art of Pickling Data
I have never pickled before, and probably won’t but I do enjoy eating them. The best tasting pickles one can…
It’s Just a Question of Time…Data Mobility & Depeche Mode
I’m having a hard-time writing this morning… I’m still moved by the sight of more than 10,000 40-somethings having a…
Payola? There’s An App For That!
Remember a few months ago when there was a scandal about a Belkin employee paying people $0.65 per review to…
Day Job: System Dynamics and Cash Management
Nice writeup by Robin Bloor on a project that I am involved with at the Day Job (tm): So what…
Analysis of a Bad Indicator
I watched a video lecture, as I often do, on data analysis. here's the video: the Hilbert Spectrum. Here are…
Because it’s Friday: United States of Obesity
Reader BR pointed me to a, er, unique representation of the proportion of the proportion of the population in each…
The Geography of Telecommunications Marketing
Years ago, when I was helping start up a local phone company and later starting up a local cable company,…