January 2010 – Page 5 – DECISION STATS

Episode 2: The Chrome Wars

Google now shows me an error of GMAIL with Google CHROME.

In the meantime there are a big bunch of extensions and themes in a SUR PRISE announcement.

As my friend Ashlee of NYT said it best, Google is trying to out APPLE APPLE, before APPLE APPLES.

Making Sense: Hadoop and MapReduce

This is MapReduce

This is Hadoop

Courtesy- AsterData’s SlideShare Channel

Google gets confused

Google is willing to sell me 529$ of Phone.

But it says it wont sell me 30 $ of advertising because it does not deal with INR

Maybe I should talk to the Indian professors of Googlers, grr.

Audio Interviews -Dr. Colleen McCue National Security Expert

During times of National Insecurity, I remembered and dug up an interview at SAS Data Mining 2009 in which Dr Colleen McCue talks of how working with SAS and Data Mining can help.

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Interview Dr Colleen

Dr. Colleen McCue, President & CEO of MC² Solutions, brings over 18 years of experience in advanced analytics and the development of actionable solutions to complex information processing problems in the applied public safety and national security environment. Dr. McCue’s areas of expertise include the application of data mining and predictive analytics to the analysis of crime and intelligence data, with particular emphasis on deployment strategies, surveillance detection, threat and vulnerability assessment and the behavioral analysis of violent crime. Her experience as the Crime Analysis Program Manager for the Richmond, Virginia Police Department and pioneering work in operationally relevant and actionable analytical strategies has been used to support a wide array of national security and public safety clients. Dr. McCue has authored a book on the use of advanced analytics in the applied public safety environment entitled, “Data Mining and Predictive Analysis: Intelligence Gathering and Crime Analysis.” Dr. McCue earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Doctorate in Psychology from Dartmouth College, and completed a five-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. McCue can be reached atcolleen@mc2solutions.net or 804.894.1154.

MC² Solutions, LLC specializes in the provision of public safety and national security research, analysis and training.

Watch Colleen’s Webinar, Why Just Count Crime When You Can Prevent It?

YouTube-Promoted Videos

While I covered Google Patents in October 2009, here are some video shots. A 22 sec video which can help you decide whether to go for getting a patent or not. By elimintaion prior art search costs, this can greatly reduce the cost and complexity for small entrepreneurs.

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So go ahead, patent your R functions and algorithms ( The video shows one important tool) while using the tool at http://google.com/patents to search for prior patents.

Incidentally YouTube has a great feature for promoted videos only open for USD ( incidentally my 2007 email feature is listed as INR so I am still waiting for the free customer support at G Inc to reply that “hey, I can now pay in USD so let me in”.)

Neat Concept, anyways!

I tried this

but got this instead

Web Meets Phone: The Google Phone

A Thing of Beauty

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases;

it will never. Pass into nothingness; but still will keep

John Keats

Climate Die Oxide ( Updated)

Here is some room for thought in climate control negotiations.

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1) What is the expected date of melting of glaciers in Himalayas thus affecting sacred rivers like Ganges and also causing floods in densely populated Asia. How would nation states with shareable resources like Water react on the disputes, dams , hydro electricity and floods.

2) How would you count per capita CO2 consumption- Assume a Factory in China makes 3 tonnes of C02 every year but exports all its products to USA on Indian Cargo ship. Travel contributes another 1 tonne of C02 including air travel, visits etc.

As of now this will be counted as 3 tonne for China, 1 Tonne for India, X tonne for USA ? What is wrong in these assumptions.

3) Some countries that used to be cold will get warmer- will that lead to extra crops. Which countries will that be.

4) It took a world war to create fission. Will it take another World War on Energy to create fusion. How much energy and resources are needed for creating a dedicated project ManHatten 2 for sharing with the world.

5) Most of the bigger data owned by climate change observations is in the Western Hemisphere under National labs not under UN control OR INSPECTION. How sacrosanct is the data to fudging, or infiltration by intelligence agencies of those countries hoping to influence bargaining chips on the climate change table.

6) Are there last action military ways to change climate during wars- like cause glaciers to melt by thermal bombs, earthquakes by seismic sensitive explosions and how high tech are these solutions and which countries have them.

7) If the planet is running out of Resources- why dont we go to Mars. 🙂

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