Analytics Team

Boing Boing reviews a new book, Absinthe & Flamethrowers: Projects and Ruminations on the Art of Living Dangerously. Among other things, it shows how people fit a normal distribution when it comes to how willing they are to take risks. What’s interesting is that they found that those people who are within one [...]

The full text of the book, R Graphics by Paul Murrell, is available online.

Cloudera founder, Jeff Hammerbacher, has a new data book available – Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

If your database isn’t performing the way you’d hoped, then this book might be for you. Refactoring SQL Applications provides a set of tested options for making code modifications to dramatically improve the way your database applications function. Backed by real-world examples, you’ll find quick fixes for simple problems, in-depth answers for more complex [...]

Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris argue that companies need analytics to make better decisions and extract maximum value from their business processes.
by Colin Beasty
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
In a world where the traditional bases of competitive advantage have largely disappeared, how do you separate your company’s performance from the rest of the pack’s? In Competing on [...]

I just came across a review of “SQL Hacks – tips and tools for digging into your data By Andrew Cumming, Gordon Russell” and thought I would share it with everyone.
Here’s the review:
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/08/1536255&from=rss
and here’s the link to the book:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sqlhks/index.html