ReportGrid offers an API to report or visualize anything running as SaaS. There are some examples of what ReportGrid’s Visualization Engine can do. Prices start at $50 per month. Check out the
TheNextWeb article.
Oct 29
Oct 27
Before you start looking for new tools to help in your analytics, check out what you can already do with Microsoft Office. All Analytics helps with some tips.
Oct 18
Tidemark is a new company in the business intelligence – analytics space just coming out of stealth and announcing a big chunk of funding.
Check out the articles from ZDNet, Techcrunch, and Venture Beat. Marketwatch has an article abotu Tidemark’s partnership with Cloudera.
Oct 15
Manning Publications has recently completed their book, Mahout in Action. The book covers three main areas: 1) Collaborative Filtering, 2) Clustering, 3) Classification. Here’s a review of the book from DZone.
Oct 13
Agriculture company, Monsanto, is using BigCouch to manage its genome sequencing analysis. BigCouch is the commercialized version of the Apache CouchDB from Cloudant. Check out the Silicon Angle article.
Oct 11
The New York Times Technology blog article features a company founded by a couple ex-Googlers called Climate Corporation. Their company is built on making use of the free data published by the National Weather Service. They started by using the data to sell insurance to companies dependent on the weather like farmers and ski resorts. They’ve expanded their data sources and now focus more on the agriculture market.
Oct 11
Check out the Chart.io blog for an interview with one of the founding members of the LinkedIn data science team, Monica Rogati.
Oct 11
When I saw this post on the R-blogger site, it made me smile. It’s originally from the Simply Statistics blog. Only a data scientist would even thing of creating an R function to determine if he or she was a data scientist.
They’ve created a venn diagram showing the intersection of the following skills that define a data scientist:
- hacking skills
- math and statistics skills
- substantive expertise
