#18: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:Less is moreWe live…
HadoopDB discussion with Daniel Abadi
I spoke to Daniel Abadi a few days ago about his HadoopDB announcement that came out recently. I am sure…
Predicting the next Viral Tweet
It is time to use Twitter data for another reason: Can Predictive Analytics be used to identify which tweets have…
Getting Your Data Freq On
One of the most basic features of a data profiling tool is the ability to generate statistical summaries and frequency…
Slides from OSCON
OSCON 2009 has been a blast so far, and I've really been enjoying the presentations and meeting people from different…
Scraping data from the Web with R
Sometimes the data we need isn't packaged up nicely into a simple comma-separated file or database. It's out there, but…
Accuracy
As might be inferred from my last post, certain sporting matters have been on my mind of late. However, as…
A Few Words on Behavioral Targeting
One can usually divide Online Advertising (OA) in different types. Here are some examples of OA types: Contextual targeting (Google…
Information Waves
Many years ago when I was a researcher in a European think-tank, I wanted to develop an automatic way to…
The Darker Side Of Analytics
I recently read an article in one of the major Dutch newspapers (warning - it's in Dutch!) about their Government's moves…
