A nice place to search for applications that can help save time on useful and fun time wasting activities 🙂
A great startup from Israel, land of the brave and intelligent.
Social Media is surely helping provide a host of application provider, content aggregation as well as marketing opportunities.
The Wikipedia page for Social media was viewed 48,155 times from March 10 through April 8.
© 2009 Small Batch, Inc.
Here is nice video on ‘What is Cloud Computing‘ . It was created by Joyent http://joyent.com/. It basically shows you the perspectives on how cloud computing is without getting into jargon, technical gab or semantics.
Enjoy!
It is also available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PNuQHUiV3Q
From the makers of KNIME http://www.knime.org/blog/knime-202-released
KNIME 2.0.2 has been released and is available for download. This release includes a number of important bug fixes, amongst others addressing some chemical related issues, as well as a few new features. For further details see the detailed changelog.
In addition, a Windows 64bit version has been just released. Both versions, KNIME Desktop (win64) and KNIME SDK (win64), are still in experimental state and are intended to evaluate KNIME under Windows 64bit.
64 bit OS version is BIG milestone, though the launch did have a temporary issue with the R Plug-in being disabled
In KNIME 2.0.2, we have encountered a problem within the R Snippet (Local) node when special characters are used within the R script. Therefore we have temporarily disable the R 2.0.2 plugin from our update site. For a detailed work-around see the FAQ section.
Note KNIME has been covered before here.
I got a note saying my entry below has been accepted for the Cloud Slam 09 Webinar
If you want to hear me speak on Cloud Computing, please mark your calendars for April 21.
Here is the Link to April 21 Webinar-
Abstract.
The cloud computing paradigm offers unparalleled access to computing resources both in terms of storage as well as processing power for developing countries.The use of predictive analytics and data mining has been hitherto restricted to an elite set of universities and organizations willing to invest tens of thousands in annual license
fees to software companies like SAS ,SPSS,Oracle and SAP and even more in terms of network and server hardware costs to companies like HP,Dell and IBM.Every two or three years, the hardware needed to be upgraded , thus putting total cost of ownership of predictive analytics, data driven decision making and resource planning well out of reach of a major part of the planet’s population.Copyright infringements and intellectual property violations further helped create a divide between advanced computing and those who needed it the most.
Now thanks to open source softwares, softwares as a service and cloud hosted processing , even a relatively non funded Indian or Asian or African university ,government office as well as small and medium enterprise can avail the advanced cost savings due to predictive analytics. This in turn will lead to a new era of resource optimized decision making, one which benefits all companies that offer the flexibility of cloud hosted applications to hitherto closed markets.
Which reminds me I have to prepare the presentation as well…….I will post the slides and full article here on this blog too.
Speaking of Webinars, here is one which I am helping which tries to showcase technological methods including CRM and BI to help manage cost challenges and marketing ops in the recession. It’s on 11 a.m. EST April 16, 2009
Eclectic the person said, across the ocean to me.
I did not know what the word meant,
I opened my dictionary.
I do good interviews, bad cartoons and mediocre poetry,
I blog and slog, making productive my eccentricities.
I love cloud computing, and with my head is in the clouds,
I try some coding too.
I dont get paid for that all,
Open source has money few.
Beating the recession, with the roller coaster ups and down,
Enjoying Indian elections, with a shoe throwing hack,
I focus on R code and cloud computing slams
But daily demands force me back
And if you ever feel overwhelmed,
with the boring drudgery and daily flim flam,
read some poetry from here
or there
Less expensive than a glass of wine,
Just as relaxing, works faster at times,
either moves you to tears or to sleep,
Irreverent and blasé, these eclectic rhymes.
Here are some previews of the PASW – the new suite of softwares by SPSS.
Auto Cluster
The Auto Cluster feature in PASW Modeler 13 creates, ranks, browses and visualizes models to identify which clusters offer the most effective cross-sell/up-sell opportunities, or reduce the propensity to churn.
Automatic Data Preparation
Automatic Data Preparation, a one-click feature in PASW Modeler 13, quickly flags problems such as missing data and recommends which sets of data to use for optimal results.
Comments
The new Comments feature is an invaluable collaborative tool that enables users to post quick notes directly into a particular model stream and communicate detail behind the logic used to create it.
PASW Statistics Integration
Now all the PASW Statistics modules and functionality can be used directly within Modeler 13 to conduct all statistical analysis without having to switch between applications.
The images were courtesy SPSS PR. But the website itself talks of much more
http://www.spss.com/software/modeling/
(Ajay- Much better revamped website for much better revamped software 🙂 )
While the failure of predictive analytics models in the mortgage industry and financial services industry to PREDICT default rates started the recession,
here is something which may just ensure-
Why 2009 wont be like 1929.
Business Intelligence for better Decision Management.
Bad news on coming demand mismatch enabled faster decision making in cutting interest rates, coordinated global action. Inventories fell faster than expected, as companies aligned supply chains faster.
Featured-
A webinar coming up on April 16 on using Technology to beat the recession back.
Is this the beginning of the end of the recession? As Winston Churchill said- This may be the end of the beginning.
How are you using 2009 technology to align decision management in the current economic downturn? How much training are you giving yourself for these interesting times.
DECISION STATS 