A New Decision Engine: Hunch, and Guided Analysis for the Enterprise
A new “Decision Engine” called Hunch was launched today. How might this type of technology relate to collaborative decision-making in…
High Tech: Leader of the Pack
The Dow Jones Index (DJIA) moved into positive territory for the year on Friday, June 12 with the S&P 500…
The problem with the RDBMS (Part 3) – Let’s Get Real
Image by ToniVC via Flickr Introduction The Problem with the Relational Database (Part 1 ) –The Deployment Model The Problem…
#14: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:Credit where credit is…
Small Book Review: The Little SAS Book
To start learning SAS, I decided to read a book different from the dozens of SAS users manual in PDF.…
Wikipedia Page Traffic Statistics Dataset
I’ve published a Wikipedia Page Traffic Data Set containing a 320 GB sample of the data used to power trendingtopics.org…
First Look – Angoss 7
Angoss has just released a new version of their data mining and predictive analytics software, version 7.0. Key themes for…
Tweeting from R
Over at Cerebral Mastication, you can find the code for a function that will allow you to send a status…
Interesting Financial KPIs (REL Consulting)
I found a few KPIs on the web that were worth discussion. These are from REL Consulting (under solutions >…
No Data Warehouse Required: BI Reporting Extends Its Reach
It’s rare these days to find clients who haven’t already decided on a standard BI platform. Most of the new…