A Netflix Prize win is nigh: How they did it
Breaking news: On Friday, Netflix Prize team “BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos” passed the mark, qualifying for the $1,000,000 prize. The team…
Search Innovation: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
It’s unusual for HCIR to make it into the mainstream business press, so I was delighted when Pete Barlas reached…
NYT charts Michael Jackson’s pop hits
The New York Times has an interesting graphic today charting the late Michael Jackson's musical career. The chart superposes the Billboard…
Data Visualization – One City at a Time
Ever wondered what the “rhythm” of your city looks like? In cities like Rome and New York, aggregated real-time data…
Converting an infographic to information: Calorie Chart
Inspired by a challenge from Nathan Yau at FlowingData.com, Jon Pelter takes this pretty, but hard-to-read infographic (click to enlarge):…
Data Warehouse Design
One of the main problems with Data Warehouses is that they are designed to answer any question. The problem is…
Graphing real-time foreclosure data: Data Mashups in R
The latest in the O'Reilly "Short Cuts" series, and the first devoted to R, is Data Mashups in R. Written…
How Habitat UK *should* have used Twitter
Following the great post from Gloria Tiphereth I wanted to take the opportunity to show an example of how Habitat…
Examining PMML 4.0 – Part I: Pre-Processing
You may be wondering what is all the fuss around PMML and its latest 4.0 version. So, we decided to…
Entry Point: Architecture or Crumbling Foundation
Let us talk for a moment about architecture.Good architecture is built to last, to withstand the elements and the test…
