Is Cloud Computing Hurtling Towards Disaster?
The freight train of cloud computing has left the station and is on an exponential growth tear. But just like…
Listening In: Big Ideas About Big Data
National Public Radio is not the most obvious place for a deep dive on “The New World of Massive Data…
Decision Management and the 4Ds
A recent new twitter follower had an interesting post on his blog back in 2010 - The 4Ds “Detect, Derive, Decide…
Practical Sentiment Analysis and Lies
Q&A with Prof. Bing Liu ahead of the Sentiment Analysis Symposium and Pre Symposium TutorialTom: Bing, how did you get…
A Question of Scope
Don’t bite off more than you can chew because nobody looks attractive spitting it back out.- Carroll Bryant
Using Analytics to Create Rating Territories
One of the many areas of property and casualty risk analysis is the effective creation of rating territories based on…
Is Machine Learning v Domain Expertise the wrong question?
KDNuggets had an interesting poll this week in which readers expressed themselves as Skeptical of Machine Learning replacing Domain Expertise. This…
Earthquake Prediction Through Sunspots Part II: common Data Mining Mistakes!
While I was writing the last post I was wondering how long before my followers will notice the mistakes I…
Facebook’s Response to Yahoo’s Patent Lawsuit
Like many in tech, I believe all software patents should be abolished. That said, I think Facebook made the right…
