Thoughts on the Science and Business of Data
Tried Pownce last night. I like the idea of realtime broadcast messaging like Twitter and Pownce, but not the implementations. Found it to be clunky, hard to use, and even harder to syndicate properly. All I wanted to do was publish a realtime feed on the sidebar of my blog, and I have not found a way to do this yet without mucking around with Yahoo Pipes and digging around for ugly widgets.
Verdict?
The Web vs. native app from an app store debate has been raging lately. It's nice to see an old-fashioned blog discussion, makes me … [Read More...]
I've been thinking lately about where software has gone in the last few years, and where it might go in the next. I tried to identify some … [Read More...]
I'm probably biased because I'm working on this problem, but I think there is a fundamental change coming in business intelligence and … [Read More...]
One of the reasons I love data is because there's so much potential for mining real value from it, especially when you combine it with … [Read More...]
One of the most under-appreciated tools of the last decade is Yahoo Pipes. If you've never seen it, it allows you to wield together … [Read More...]
I think that at some point in the near future the tools we use to consume data is going to change completely and totally from what we've … [Read More...]
This is kind of an obscure topic, but I've been trying to figure out what the best way to count things is, and how to best identify … [Read More...]
I came across this TED talk about "online filter bubbles", which is pretty interesting if you have the time: The gist of it is that … [Read More...]
When you start getting into multi-dimensional data analysis, you quickly run into something called the "Curse of Cardinality" (so yes, the … [Read More...]
I hadn't been keeping up on the Kinect mods that are coming out, I've been too busy doing far less glamorous backend work lately. … [Read More...]
