The R Project: despite there being over 2 million users of this open-source language for statistical data analysis, you might…
Google continues to punish Microsoft in search, taking some 70% of the market. Worse, Google is offering lots of free…
Several month's ago a short video appeared on YouTube with an interview of LinkedIn's Chief Scientist DJ Patil. In it he discusses…
Python programs written to run in BEGIN PROGRAM blocks are easy to write and add lots of functionality to IBM…
Peter Yared wrote recently a BusinessWeek guest blog post called “Failure of Commercial Open Source Software.” Not surprisingly his post…
Author and enterprise software executive Nenshad Bardoliwalla lists his Top 10 Trends for 2010 in Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Performance Management…
Robert Gentleman, on behalf of the R Foundation, issued today the following statement: We are writing on behalf of the…
I'm very happy to report that after 6 months of development by a team of 8 developers (at its peak)…
In “Rohm and Haas and the ‘Open Source Dashboard," we noted that the big chemical company had deployed a low-cost…
Anne Milley is director of product marketing, SAS Institute. In part 2 of the interview, Anne talks of immigration in…
The above diagram was compiled by Florence Nightingale, who was – according to The Font – “a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of…
At a time in our history when there is more data than ever before, the overwhelming majority of companies ...
Money Out the Window It’s scary to think about the dollars involved, but with over 70% of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing projects failing it is surprising…
I always make the point that data is everywhere – and that a lot of it is free.
The internet and ecommerce world offers endless possibilities to use customer analytics and big data ..
