Considering the Data Diet
I had the unique pleasure of meeting with Pete Fader and Eric Bradlow from the Wharton Interactive Media Initiative last…
Great Series of Posts on Medical Literature Search
Gene Golovchinsky at FXPAL has written a great series of posts on medical literature search, specifically looking at how MeSH…
Finding, Locating, Discovering
Thanks to Tony Hollingsworth for alerting me to a post by Alex Campbell entitled “Stark realisation: I no longer depend…
Free as in Freebase
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about Freebase, the semantic web database maintained by Metaweb. But I recently had…
Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 5)
In Part 4 of this series: You went totally postal... shifting your focus to postal address by first analyzing the…
New to Data Quality Analysis Try These “9+1 Things To Do”!
Did you just get moved over from one data warehouse support group to another? Do you know nothing or very…
Monitoring your brand: Sentiment analysis
Earlier this year at SAP's Business Suite 7 launch I saw a demo of some text analytics capability developed by…
Keeping Your Eye on the Prize: Business Value
Rightfully so, sometimes data warehouse directors and database administrators get caught up in sourcing, modeling, integrating and managing data in…
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
Yesterday, Amazon introduced Amazon VPC. It enables logically isolated compute instances and a VPN tunnel to connect to internal data…
How pie charts fail
The Wikipedia page for Pie Charts now has a nice section illustrating how bar charts do a better job of…
