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Another option for A/B testing on the web

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:39:49 +0000

Techcrunch discusses a new option for A/B testing for websites, Visual Website Optimizer. The tool offers multivariate testing, click maps, and the ability to route traffic to different versions of your site. It also interfaces with other tools like WordPress, and Google Analytics.

New charting tools from chart.io

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:20:30 +0000

Check out this Techcrunch article about a new charting tool for real-time database reporting, chart.io.

GoodData on-demand BI secures more funding

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:45:55 +0000

Techcrunch highlights that on-demand business intelligence provider, GoodData, has received an additional $6.5 million in funding from Fidelity Growth Partners Europe.

What is Palantir?

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:59:13 +0000

There are some analytics products that receive high degrees of notoriety. Palantir is not one of them. Primarily used by the government, their technology allows non-technical users to see relationships between disparate data. Until this Techcrunch article I hadn’t heard of them at all.

Commercialized R

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:48:21 +0000

Revolution Analytics has a commercial version of the open sourced R analytics platform. Read more from Flowing Data.

New big data site

Sat, 01 May 2010 22:09:25 +0000

Greenplum and Aster Data have launched bigdatanews.com to serve as a collaboration of data warehouse, business intelligence, and analytics industry experts.

Launch of mapreduce.org by Aster Data

Sat, 01 May 2010 22:06:03 +0000

DBMS2 reports on the launch of mapreduce.org by Aster Data. The site contains lots of good Mapreduce information and links.

Hbase and Mapreduce

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:36:57 +0000

Here’s a post from Joydeep Sen Sarma about the combo of Hbase and Mapreduce.

Learn Access to improve Excel

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:32:53 +0000

Access has come in handy so many times for me when Excel just wouldn’t cut it. Jorge at ExcelCharts.com suggests that knowing how to use Access can may you a better Excel user. I agree. Check out his post for the rest of the details.

Using R for analyzing climate data

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:12:23 +0000

Over at the Process Trends site, they’ve collected a list of R scripts and data file links related to analyzing climate data.