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ARMONK, N.Y., June 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A new generation of startups is entering the market with software designed to analyze large volumes of data, IBM (NYSE: IBM) said today. The company is coaching a new group of entrepreneurs who will compete next week in the New York City IBM Global Entrepreneur SmartCamp competition. The five finalists have developed software…

How do you motivate someone to create something that disrupts the paradigm and rewrites the rules? Do you say, “Give me something disruptive and I will pay you ten times your salary“. No. Disruption or innovation happens only under two situations:

1. If our survival is challenged by nature, we innovate to survive. This has been the story of human history from the day we started walking this earth.
2. Or, if our egos are challenged. This is probably why extreme sports…

Dr. Granville is Chief Scientist at a publicly traded company, and the founder of Analyticbridge, the leading social network for analytic professionals, with more than 35,000 members. He has created several patents related to web traffic quality scoring, and he is an invited speaker at leading international data mining conferences. Vincent has consulted with Visa, eBay, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, CNET, LowerMyBills, InfoSpace and a…

As a coincidence, I noticed from Google Insights for Search that there was some sort of correlation between web search interests in "American Idol" (singing competition on US television) and "iPhone" (Apple smartphone).  Looking at the time series graph, it appears that American Idol searches are seasonal from January to May each year, which correspond to the months which this television series is broadcast.  As soon as American Idol interest drops in June, searches for iPhone spike in the…

From University of Washington, Seattle. Curriculum puts emphasis on numerical analysis, digital filtering, image de-blurring, contour detection and techniques that are 30 to 40 years old. I tried to get an exact price quote, but couldn't find again the web page where the price is listed.

Clearly a service that is priced based…

Yesterday's expert analysis here decided that Boston has a slight advantage in spite of the finals going to game 7 in Vancouver. We decided to dig a little deeper into the data and try out a quick decision tree analysis using RapidMiner.

We are trying to find out if the data reveals any interesting trends from all the games Vancouver has played at home. Is there a…

This is the divide between those with an analytical mind, and those without. 

Analytic People

• Have further developed their talent by pursuing an analytic degree
• Mostly, being analytic is a talent that you have or don't have, but not a set of skills that you learn
• Manage their finance well, win more frequently on the stock market
• Avoid losing schemes such as lotteries, casinos (unless they do it for fun, but not for…

After the launch of our platform for crowdsourcing statistical modeling and analytics, and the resounding success of our first contest, I am convinced that as humans, our ability to innovate and deliver quality solutions is not just motivated by how much money we make.

In our first contest, a global community of analysts are competing to predict the quality of Vinho Verde wines.…

Illustration: Mckibillo

This is part of IEEE Spectrum's special report on the battle for the future of the social Web.

First thing you do, tear this article out ofthe magazine and carefully set it on fire. It's about the jockeying for position and revenue among the big players in social media: Facebook, Twitter, and…

OK, so your company has taken a big step toward operating more efficiently by implementing a business intelligence (BI) solution—or it’s planning to install one in the near future. But if that’s the case then you’re probably also going to have to enlist the help of a new type of worker—a “data geek”—to make sense of all that BI data.

At…

Interesting message found in my mailbox...

When did "free" analytics get so expensive? …

Our client is among the most well positioned fastest growing full service mortgage bankers in the US. The firm is sponsored by a $43b global asset management company with an impeccable reputation. The mortgage company's loan servicing platform has expanded 10 fold to over $70b in the past 3 years and is planning to surpass $120b within the next 12 months.…

Analyzing the future of cities

Just as you can look at a newspaper photograph and see both the image and the tiny individual dots that give it its shapes and shadings, city leaders look at their municipalities in terms of both the big picture and the individual citizens that comprise it.

The majority of us live in cities, and the percentage is growing. Municipal leaders who run the complex network of diverse people,…

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