UseR! 2009 Program Announced
The program and schedule for the premier R conference UseR! 2009 has been announced, jam-packed with almost 200 talks over three…
R/Finance 2009 roundup
The first international conference dedicated to the use of R in the finance industry, R/Finance 2009, was a great success.…
#7: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:First, the decisionThe first…
What do you get when you combine the power of SAP and Teradata?
You get intelligence that screams. This translates to a competitive business advantage. Imagine Einstein behind the wheel of a Buggati,…
Who Wants To Play “Jeopardy”?
That would be IBM Research, for millions of dollars (I suspect). I’ve known about the Jeopardy project for a while…
Taking Assumptions With A Grain Of Salt
Occasionally, I come across descriptions of clustering or modeling techniques which include mention of "assumptions" being made by the algorithm.…
Guest Post: Inference for R
Today, I would like to welcome Ben Hinchliffe as a guest blogger on Data Mining Research. Ben is working at…
Social Analytics?
Do you ever have those moments when something someone says in a conversation is the one missing piece of a…
Dashboards should do more than raise your blood pressure
This headline came from a briefing I got from LucidEra about their spring release and was so good I just…
Oracle and Sun
As I came off a weeks vacation Monday I was greeted by a 5AM call from Oracle informing me that…