Category Archives: Misc

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“I can’t express how infuriated I am that my credit history, phone activity, and online browsing habits are being systematically collected and archived without my knowledge by undisclosed organizations that aren’t trying to sell me products”–Area Man “PRISM 1.0 was … Continue reading →

Murphy’s Law: Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. O’Toole’s Corollary: Murphy was an optimist. Sturgeon’s Law: 95 percent of everything is crap. Mencken’s Law: Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. Borasky’s Law: Sturgeon … Continue reading →

Join me in Boston this September 13 & 14 for the exclusive Social Media & Web Analytics Innovation Summit – bringing together the industry’s most innovative leaders and professionals for two days in an open and interactive environment. The event … Continue reading →

1. Vincent Granville, AnalyticBridge,@analyticbridge 2. Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggests, @kdnuggets 3. Alex Popescu, MyNoSQL, @al3xandru 4. Harish Kotadia, Infosys, @HKotadia 5.  David Smith, Revolution Analytics, @revodavid Source: Traackr

A great program is in store for attendees of The Big Data Innovation Summit, September 13-14 in Boston, an event for which this blog is a media sponsor. The summit will bring together senior data scientists and business executives to … Continue reading →

“Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?”—Pat Gelsinger, EMC “You have to realize something about the three of us–we’re all big gamers. And we’re analytical. And competitive. We play those really complicated strategy board … Continue reading →

1. Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggests, @kdnuggets 2.  Harish Kotadia, Infosys, @HKotadia 3. David Smith, Revolution Analytics, @revodavid 4. Gil Press, What’s the Big Data? @GilPress 5. Alex Popescu, MyNoSQL, @al3xandru Source: Traackr

Monica Rogati in The LinkedIn Blog on Coursera, which offers free online courses: “Coursera’s approach to feedback and assessment is a very interesting application of data science. Tests are either computer-graded or peer-graded — the latter following industry tested crowdsourcing best … Continue reading →

1.  Harish Kotadia, Infosys, @HKotadia 2. Gregory Piatetsky, KDnuggests, @kdnuggets 3. Avkash Chauhan, Microsoft, @avkashchauhan 4. Alex Popescu, MyNoSQL, @al3xandru 5. David Smith, Revolution Analytics, @revodavid Source: Traackr