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Archives: August2009

• Interview Dylan Jones DataQualityPro.com

  Here is an interview with Dylan Jones the founder/editor of Dataqualitypro.com , the site to go to for anything related to Data Quality discussions. Dylan is a great charming person and in this interview talks candidly on his views. Ajay: Describe your career in science and in business intelligence. How would you convince young students [...]

• MS Smacks Google Docs with Slideshare

  Our favorite drop outs from the Phd Program just learned that they should not moon the giant. The company founded in Paul Allen building at Stanford, also known as Gogol /Google announced they would create a Cloud OS with much fan fare. Only to find their own cloud prodocutivity offering Google Docs bested by Slideshare. [...]

• OT-The Dude of Data

  I am creating a new website www.dudeofdata.com which will be more irreverant, more sarcastic on corporate hypocricy in analytics and statistics. It will feature the hack kings of mashing software and would be expunged for lots of stuff. Strategic intention would be to make statistics “cool’ for my fellow hosts in America- I see less [...]

• Interview Sarah Burnett BI Analyst,Ovum group

  Here is an interview with the terrific Sarah Burnett, well known BI analyst at Ovum Group. Ajay- Describe your career in science. How do you think science careers can be made more popular to young students. Sarah- Other than a little time in electronics engineering, I have spent all my career in the computer industry. Science [...]

• Interview Eric A. King President The Modeling Agency

  Here is an interview with Eric King, President, The Modeling Agency. Ajay- Describe your career journey. What interested you in science? How do you think we can help more young people get interested in science? Eric- I was a classic underachiever in school. I was bright, but was generally disinterested in academics, and focused on… [...]

• Best of Decision Stats- Modeling and Text Mining Part3

  Here are some of the top articles by way of views, in an  area I love- of modeling and text mining. 1) Karl Rexer – Rexer Analytics http://www.decisionstats.com/2009/06/09/interview-karl-rexer-rexer-analytics/ Karl produces one of the most respected surveys that captures emerging trends in data mining and technology. Karl was also one of the most enthusiastic people I [...]

• The Top Decisionstats Articles -Part 2 Business Intelligence and Data Quality

  I am self convinced novice at business intelligence. I understand the broad concepts, understand reporting tools, and definitely forecasting tools. But the whole systems view baffles me enough. Fortunately I have been learning from some of the best writers in this field. Here in order of circulation are the top Business Intelligence articles. Business Intelligence [...]

• The Top DecisionStats Articles -Part 1 Analytics

  I was just looking at my web analytics numbers and we seem to have crossed some milestones. The site has now gotten more than 50,000 views since being launched in Dec 2007. Thank you everyone for your help in this. More importantly the quality of comments has been fabulous. Since I am out of ideas for [...]

• Interview Gregory Piatetsky KDNuggets.com

  Here is an interviw with Gregory Piatetsky, founder and editor of KDNuggets (www.KDnuggets.com ) ,the oldest and biggest independent industry websites in terms of data mining and analytics- Ajay- Please describe your career in science, many challenges and rewards that came with it. Name any scientific research, degrees teaching etc. Gregory- I was born in [...]

• Interview Tasso Argyros CTO Aster Data Systems

  Here is an interview with Tasso Argyros,the CTO and co-founder of Aster Data Systems (www.asterdata.com ) .Aster Data Systems is one of the first DBMS to tightly integrate SQL with MapReduce. Ajay- Maths and Science students the world over are facing a major decline. What would you recommend to young students to get careers in science. [...]

• Interview Steve Sarsfield Author The Data Governance Imperative

  Here is an interview with Steve Sarsfield, data quality evangelist and author of Data Quality Imperative. Ajay- Describe your early career to the present point. At what point did you decide to specialize or focus on data quality and data governance? What were the causes for it? Steve- When I was growing up, not many [...]

• Interview Dr Usama Fayyad Founder Open Insights LLC

  Here is an interview with Dr Usama Fayyad, founder of Open Insights LLC (www.open-insights.com). Prior to this he was Yahoo’s Chief Data Officer. In his prior role as Chief Data Officer of Yahoo! he built the data teams and infrastructure to manage the 25 terabytes of data per day that resulted from the company’s operations. [...]