Come see my talk on hashes in R at useR! 2010. (http://user2010.org/) July 20-23 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA [Read more...]

October 2009 Open Data Group has launched a changed detection project on Google Code, http://code.google.com/p/change-detection/. This is an introduction and demonstration of using open source software and the Data Mining Group’s Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) standard to perform data analytics.  Specifically, we show how ... [Read more...]

This is a post about systems, applications, services and architectures for building and deploying analytics. Sometimes this is called analytic infrastructure. In this post, we look at several trends impacting analytic infrastructure. Trend 1. Open source analytics has reached Main Street. R, which was first released in 1996, is now [...] [Read more...]