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.

Big Data…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Cross selling campaigns aim at selling additional products to existing customers. 

A cross selling model estimates the propensity to uptake an add-on product for each scored customer.



A cross selling model can be built on the results of a test campaign to analyze respondents and identify customers with increased purchase potentials.



An easier approach which does not require the running of a test campaign, is to analyze the profile of customers who acquired the product of… Continue

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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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See www.ddn.com/careers

 

Position:  Senior Analytics Software Architect - Location Flexible

Location:  Sunnyvale, CA

Job Id:  186a

# of Openings:   1…

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(This is a repost from Statistics & Analytics Consultants Blog, which was featured on SmartDataCollective's Blogarama)

Statistics & Analytics Consultants Blog  

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

 

http://lnkd.in/rRDp_V

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

Vincent -

 

"then" should be 'than'

 

b/r

Jeff Daniels

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…

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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…

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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…

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Ada boost, by practical means

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

6 weak classifiers:…

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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…

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I have read several articles on the subject, but none of the authors were really “Data Scientist” and they admit that, so I thought it was time that something was written by an actual Data Scientist.

First off, let’s make sure you understand that there’s lots of college involved, no way around that one. If you noticed a lady in the 2nd row, 3rd from the left had a mole on her nose in the last commercial you watched, you might have what it takes, even if you hadn’t thought of…

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When you see google ads on Google search result pages or elsewhere, the ads that are displayed in front of you eyes (should) have been highly selected in order to maximize the chance that you convert and generate ad revenue for Google. Same on Facebook, Yahoo, Bing, LinkedIn and on all ad networks.

If you think that you see…

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We all have seen the hundreds of post and blogs dedicated to Social Media and I think it’s wonderful but please keep in mind; it is time consuming to engage your audience and you must be sure you have the right potential “buyers mix” or you’ll never be more than an interesting tweet or post.

Social Media is a wonderful way to introduce potential consumers with your product and or services. But doing a little research 1st, will assist you in improving the future of your…

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