Build your own slide rule with R
If you're a retro-geek like me with fond memories of slide rules but have long since lost yours, now you…
Interview: Jon Peck SPSS
I was in the middle of interviewing people as well as helping the good people in my new role as…
Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop Announces Version 3.0
Today Alltop announced version 3.0. Alltop is an RSS aggregating site, “like a digital news rack” which organizes sites according…
The Top Business Issues facing CIOs / IT Directors – Results
Back in January, in collaboration with Chase Zander, I started a process of consulting with senior IT managers to develop…
Data modeling infrastructure in data mining
I've had two inquiries in the last day relating to the building of data infrastructure between the database and predictive…
Data Mining: Widespread Acceptance When?
Data mining is widely accepted today among industries which have a history of "management by numbers", such as banking, pure…
When Distributions Go Bad
Recently I was working with an organization, building estimation models (rather than classification). They were interested in using linear regression,…
Data Mining: Does It Get Any Better Than This?
The article Doing the Math to Find the Good Jobs appeared in the Jan-26-2009 issue of The Wall Street Journal,…
Data Mining Data Sets
Every once in a while I receive a request or see one posted on some bulletin board about data mining…
Two Books of Interest
Recently, I have been reading two books which may be of interest to data miners, Statistical Rules of Thumb by…
