Doug Henschen 10/18/2011 When data grows into the tens or even hundreds of terabytes, you need a special technology to quickly make sense of it all. From Hadoop to Teradata, check out the top platform options.

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The problem started in US in 2008. Historically, people have been used to get a degree (for which they pay $$$), then contact employers or recruiters, and then get a job. This has changed for good, and based on Western countries that have experienced  a 10% unemployment rate for 40 years in a row, here's the problem and solution:

• In these countries, unemployment after graduating can last for more than a year (including for analytic degrees), and the first secured position might…

And taking 364 days to make a revolution around the sun. 

Cruithne is approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) indiameter, and its closest approach to Earth is approximately thirty times the separation between Earth and the Moon (12 Gm or twelve million kilometres). From 1994 through 2015, Cruithne makes its annual closest approach to Earth…

This strategic agreement between two leaders enables HighWire to offer superb discoverability and productization to its customers in the highest quality semantically-enabled open publishing platform.

Stanford, USA and London, UK – October 27, 2011 – HighWire Press, the industry leader in the provision of high quality hosting and web publishing platforms to scholarly publishers around the world and TEMIS, leading provider of Semantic Content…

1.8 Zettabytes, or to put it another way, 31 billion fully loaded (64gb) iPad’s – an incomprehensible amount of data that represents the estimated size of our digital universe today. To give this a little more perspective, it has been estimated that if we stored all the words ever spoken since the dawn of time, by every human, we’d need 0.0048 of a Zettabyte - just a smidgen of what we’ve already created to date.

You’re probably getting the message. Data is big, abundant and no doubt…

Radar detector company Escort invented a new technique to help drivers avoid police traps, based on data mining and crowd sourcing. In a nutshell, car drivers use a mobile app on their cell phone to report any police trap or red-light camera, with just one click that will automatically provide location of the trap on a social network and alert other drivers using the mobile app in question. 

It will be interesting to see how highway patrols and local police respond to being…

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Nobel Prize in Economics 2011 for Sargent & Sims (RE & VAR) - very pertinent to now

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... few thousand digits, rather then later on. So by choosing ...

Vincent -

"then" should be 'than'

b/r

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Although I use both R and RapidMiner in my work, I have been “late to the party” in installing RapidMiner’s R extension on my Windows machine. The primary reason being that over time I have built a regular workflow that uses these two tools separately. Also, I am one of those folks who don’t go looking for trouble. After reading several postings on how after installing the extension users couldn’t get RapidMiner started again, I figured I should let this integration fad pass or at least wait…

Most banks are going to add small fees e.g. for debit card ($3/month in my case). Last time I went to my bank, I had this strange conversation:

• I asked documents about the various types of accounts that they offer, as they suggested that I switch to a more upscale type of account, where there would be no fees
• Instead of receiving the documents, I was forced to spend 15 minutes listening to a bank manager about the benefits of the upscale account. My hourly rate being…

How we moved from cave-man publishing - traditional web site funded by job ads - to where we are now:

• We managed to create a social network with a very low budget by outsourcing almost all business functions to vendors: Ning.com (to host Analyticbridge), iContact (to manage our newsletter), web.com (to host Datashaping.com), Picosearch (to provide high quality job/resume search), Wells Fargo (for credit card processing), Feedburner and Twitter related tools (for news-feed…

Ada boost, by practical means

(have a look at my blog for further details and examples: http://textanddatamining.blogspot.com/)

6 weak classifiers:…

PLEASANTON, Calif.- February 25th, 2011 - The largest benchmark research ever done on business analytics establishes for the first time that analytics has become the new engine for business competitiveness and profitability. This landmark research from Ventana Research, which involved input from more than 2,850 organizations, makes clear for the first time the little-understood role of business analytics in the success and failure of businesses.



The research found that more than…

She conceived two sons in 1996 and 1997. Both died from infant death syndrome after one month. The statistical expert testifying in court said that the chance of such a rare event is one in 73 million. She was convicted of murder and imprisoned. Freed a few years later, her life was destroyed and later died of alcohol poisoning.

My rebuttal to the 1 in 73 million argument is as follows:

• Even if "1 out of 73 million" was the correct probability, the fact that there are…