Interview: Karl Rexer – Rexer Analytics
The annual survey of Rexer Analytics is considered a benchmark in the data mining and analytics industry. In this interview, …
Privacy in Behavioral Targeting: Poll Results
Here are the results from the poll on the privacy apects of behavioral targeting. Thanks to the 27 people who…
Social Media, Corporate Decisions and Analytics
Over the past six months we have seen real-world applications of data and text mining applied on social media data…
#13: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:Cloudy days aheadThe question…
BI Dashboard for the Super Bowl
Want to see a cool example of data visualization? This case study video that shows how the Tampa Police Department…
The Argument For & Against Map/Reduce
The last 24 months has seen the introduction of Map/Reduce functionality into the data processing arena in various forms. Map/Reduce…
Google Squared a bit wobbly
Google Labs has just released Google Squared. Unlike a Google web search which returns an unstructured list of web pages,…
“Why Business Intelligence projects fail”
IntroductionIn this blog, I have generally tried to focus on success factors for Business Intelligence programmes. I suppose this reflects…
Google Wave – The Future of Email and Web is Here
This is a follow up on my previous post about Google. If you’re curious about how the web and our…
Implementing Decision Tree Bagging models in R: A Walkthrough
On his Automated Trading blog, Max Dama takes us through the process of implementing a trading model using bagged decision…