Posted on July 24, 2012
Big Data: It’s not the size that matters
Many an article has been spent defining “Big Data”… everyone agrees that “Big Data” must be, well, large, and made up of data. There may be seemingly new ways of handling big data:tools such as Hadoop and R… Read More
Posted on April 5, 2012
Datamining, Privacy, and Ethics
[I’m trying to write shorter blog posts these days — let’s see how that goes] There was a lot of chatter recently around about how Target (the shopping chain) has used data mining to identify pregnant shoppers in… Read More
Posted on August 22, 2011
Ranting about Economics
Note: I ramble a lot in this post, and I’m not sure I agree with everything I said, but I’m starting back to work today so I don’t have a lot of time to muck with it and… Read More
Posted on August 2, 2011
A Moment for the HTC EVO 3D
I’ve been a Sprint user for over 10 years, at least according to Amanda, who cheerfully explained to me why my cell phone bill never makes sense but that they appreciate my loyalty anyway as she sold me… Read More
Posted on August 1, 2011
Marbled Rye and Evolutionary Algorithms
Since no one has yet taken it upon themselves to write my unauthorized biography, it falls to me to make the following piece of information available to the public: I like to bake. Breads and pies mostly —… Read More