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Featured Blog Posts – March 2010 Archive (8)

Odds Are, It's Wrong - Science fails to face the shortcomings of statistics

Interesting article from Science News on the ever increasing misuse of statistical significance. Worth a read...

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/57091/title/Odds_Are,_Its_Wrong

Added by Ralph Winters on March 31, 2010 at 8:49pm — No Comments

Why the VP Brand Management needs text analytics

Re-posted from the Text Analytics News.



Turning “passive listening” into an “active conversation” is or should be the top priority for those who head brand management.



It is being increasingly believed that being direct, transparent and getting information out quickly is paramount to communicating with users.



For instance, marketers acknowledge that they are moving from just listening to actively engaging with their social media fans.…
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Added by Vincent Granville on March 31, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

HIGHLIGHTS from the 3rd Annual Data Miner Survey

Posted on Behalf of Karl Rexter, Ph.D.

  • 40-item survey of data miners, conducted on-line in early 2009.
  • 710 participants from 58 countries.…
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Added by Vincent Granville on March 21, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Rapid Insight Launches New Business Intelligence Technology

Press Release -- New product puts business intelligence in the hands of many and makes data easier to work with.…

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Added by Vincent Granville on March 20, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Another startup idea: social network filtering using predictive scores

Purpose: spam detection, elimination of spammy posts, elimination of problem members (spammers / scammers) and automated rejection of member applications, in networks that require new members to be approved.



Methodology: when a new member signs up, use a web crawler to harvest info about the email address and the…

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Added by Amy on March 10, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Internet social networks date back to 1980, at least

There is an interesting article in Wikipedia on the history of social networks, but here I'm more interested in Internet-based social networks. Being almost 50 years old, I was born before the Internet and thus would like to share with you a bit of history.

Could someone help me put a date on these events?

  • In the…
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Added by Titus on March 10, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Analytic startups / small companies in Seattle that are hiring data miners



http://www.evri.com



Evri is a technology company developing products that change the way consumers discover and engage with content on the Web. Publishers large and small have leveraged Evri’s semantic platform on their websites, including some of the world’s most prestigious news organizations like the Washington Post, Hearst Publishing (…

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Added by Amy on March 10, 2010 at 12:27pm — No Comments

Great web sites for Analytic people

Here are a few web sites worth visiting:

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Added by Amy on March 10, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

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