blogging – Page 3 – DECISION STATS

A Dare for Analytics Bloggers in 2011

A new challenge for R , SAS and all techie bloggers-

http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/challenge-for-2011-want-to-blog-more-often/

As part of the DailyPost, we’re launching two campaigns:

Post a Day 2011: Post something to your blog every single day through 2011

Post a Week 2011: Post to your blog at least once a week through 2011

Signing up is simple – do the following:

Post on your blog, right now, that you’re participating

(You can grab a sample post from dailypost.wordpress.com)

Use the tag postaday2011 or postaweek2011 in your posts (tips on tagging here)

Go to dailypost.wordpress.com

Subscribe to dailypost.wordpress.com– you’ll get reminders and inspirations every day to help you bring your full potential to your WordPress blog!

Do you write a blog or own a website?

Well how about taking up this challenge?

Who Dares- Wins

Game On!!!

Challenge for 2011: Want to blog more often? (via WordPress.com News) (zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com)
A Blog A Day You Say … (lifewithsarcoidosis.wordpress.com)
Participating in Daily Post 2011 (musicofourheart.wordpress.com)
Google Analytics Plugins WordPress Bloggers May Need (forthelose.org)
Regular Blogging (dougpete.wordpress.com)
Post a day, why not? (gazaliahmad.wordpress.com)
I’m Accepting the Challenge (imperfecthappiness.wordpress.com)
I Wanna Blog! (theconcertslut.wordpress.com)
I’m Posting every day in 2011! (manyhorsesmane.wordpress.com)
My New Year’s Blogging Resolution (mikestake.wordpress.com)
R-bloggers in 2010: Top 14 R posts, site statistics and invitation for sponsors (r-statistics.com)

Cartoons on R

The 50 million R Community needs to have atleast 1 R Cartoonist. Ergo, this week in R-

https://decisionstats.com/2010/11/16/dirk-and-jd-swoon-about-ajay-in-room-106-while-writing-r-code/

Mohammad cartoonist wants his old identity back (omg.yahoo.com)

Why do bloggers blog ?

Xbox (revision 1.0) internal layout. Including... — Image via Wikipedia

Step 1 is to create internal motivation to create a blog in the first place

Step 2 is to find what to write

Reasons Bloggers Blog-

Basic -Ranting

Examples- I hate Facebook Platform team treats me badly with waits, and breaks my code.

SAS Marketing wont give me a big discount to make me look good in front of my boss.

Companies wont give me their software for free- even though I will use it to make money (and not play X Box)

I want my vendors to be FOSS but my customers to switch to SaaS.

Google wont do this- Apple wont do that- Microsoft wont do those.

Revolution would give me 4 great packages but not the open source for RevoScaler (which only 300 people would understand in the first place)

Safety-

I better kiss the Professor and give a Turkey for dinner, as he sits on my thesis committee.

I will recommend Prof X’s lousy book in the hope he recommends my lousy book as a textbook too.

It is safe to laugh when the boss is making a joke-I should comment on her corporate blog, and retweet her.

Belonging-

I belong to this great online community of smart people. Let me agree to what they say.

I really believe in EVERYTHING that ALL the 2 MILLION members of the community have to say ALL the TIME.

I belong to this online community because all my friends are on my computer.

4 Egositic

My blog page rank is now X plus delta tau because of sugary key words (2004)

My technorati numbers rise (2005)

I was once on Digg (2007)

I have Z * exp N followers on Twitter and even more on Facebook (2008)

My Klout is increasing on twitter, My stack overflow reputation ‘s cup floweth over. (2009)

My Karma on Reddit is more important than my Karma in real life (2010)

Self Actualization-

I got time to kill- and I think I may learn more, meet intersting people and discover something wandering on the internet.

All those who wonder are not lost- Wikiquote

I got a story to tell, poems to write, code to give away. A free Blog is something a Chinese , an Iranian and a North korean really really know what the value is.

But after all that, WHY Do Bloggers Blog?

Because we are still waiting for Facebook to create the Blog Killer.
Its better than saying I am unemployed and a social loner
Reddit Karma feels good. Any Karma of any kind.

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Calling BS on Klout and the Concept of Influencers (mizzinformation.com)
Overheard on #Blogchat: The Next Level (@tc_geeks) (blogworld.com)
Why Facebook and Twitter Are Not Replacing Blogging (dannybrown.me)
Report: Blogging Falls to Facebook and Twitter (socialtimes.com)
Facebook and Twitter have become indispensable to bloggers (venturebeat.com)
Whaddya Mean-Blogging is Dead? (janetfouts.com)
(VIDEO) Microblogging vs. Blogging: Is There a Battle? (blogher.com)

Cisco SocialMiner

Image via Wikipedia

A new product from Cisco to mine social media for analytics on sentiment-

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11349/index.html

Cisco SocialMiner is a social media customer care solution that can help you proactively respond to customers and prospects communicating through public social media networks like Twitter, Facebook, or other public forums or blogging sites. By providing social media monitoring, queuing, and workflow to organize customer posts on social media networks and deliver them to your social media customer care team, your company can respond to customers in real time using the same social network they are using.

Cisco SocialMiner provides:

The ability to configure multiple campaigns to search for customer postings on the public social web about your company’s products, services, or area of expertise
Filtering of social contacts based on preconfigured campaign filters to focus campaign searches
Routing of social contacts to skilled customer care representatives in the contact center or to experts in the enterprise–multiple people can work together to handle responses to customer postings through shared work queues
Detailed metrics for social media customer care activities, campaign reports, and team reports

With Cisco SocialMiner, your company can listen and respond to customer conversations originating in the social web. Being proactive can help your company enhance its service, improve customer loyalty, garner new customers, and protect your brand.

Table 1. Features and Benefits of Cisco SocialMiner 8.5

Feature	Benefits
Product Baseline Features
Social media feeds	• Feeds are configurable sources to capture public social contacts that contain specific words, terms, or phrases. • Feeds enable you to search for information on the public social web about your company’s products, services, or area of expertise. • Cisco SocialMiner supports the following types of feeds: • Really Simple Syndication (RSS) • Facebook • Twitter
Campaign management	• Groups feeds into campaigns to organize all posting activity related to a product category or business objective • Produces metrics on campaign activity • Provides the ability to configure multiple campaigns to search for customer postings on specific products or services • Groups social contacts for handling by the social media customer care team • Enables filtering of social contacts based on preconfigured campaign filters to focus campaign searches
Route and queue social contacts	• Enables routing of social contacts to skilled customer care representatives in the contact center • Draws on expertise in the enterprise by allowing multiple people in the enterprise to work together to handle responses to customer postings through shared work queues • Enables automated distribution of work to improve efficiency and effectiveness of social media engagement
Tagging	• Allows work to be routed to the appropriate team by grouping each post or social contact into different categories; for example, a post can be marked with the “customer_support” tag; this post will then appear on a customer support agent’s queue for processing
Social media customer care metrics	• Provides detailed metrics on social media customer care activities, campaign reports, and team reports • Measures work and results • Manages to service-level goals • Supports brand management • Optimizes staffing • Includes dashboarding of social media posting activity when Cisco Unified Intelligence Center is used
Reporting for social contacts	• Provides a reporting database that can be accessed using any reporting tool, including Cisco Unified Intelligence Center • Enables customer care management to accurately report on and track social media interactions by the contact center
OpenSocial-compliant gadgets Representational State Transfer (REST) application programming interfaces (APIs)	• Provides flexible user interface options • Enables extensive opportunities for customization
Optional integration with full suite of Cisco Collaboration tools	• Allows you to take advantage of the full suite of Cisco Collaboration tools, including Cisco Quad, Cisco Show and Share, and Cisco Pulse technology, to help your social media customer care team quickly find answers to help customers efficiently and effectively • Easy to maintain with existing IT personnel
Operating Environment
Cisco Unified Computing System^™(UCS) C-Series or B-Series Servers	• Requires a Cisco UCS C-Series or B-Series Server. • Server consolidation means lower cost per server with Cisco UCS Servers.
Architecture
Scalability	• One server supports up to 30 simultaneous social media customer care users and 10,000 social contacts per hour.
Management
Cisco Unified Real-Time Monitoring Tool (RTMT)	• Operational management is enhanced through integration with the Cisco Unified RTMT, providing consistent application monitoring across Cisco Unified Communications Solutions.
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)	• SNMP with an associated MIB is supported through the Cisco Voice Operating System (VOS).
Reporting
Cisco Unified Intelligence Center	• Create customizable reports of social media customer care events using Cisco Unified Intelligence Center (purchased separately).

Getting Inside R

Forums and Minerals, the new Internet tools — Image via Wikipedia

I loved the new upgraded design of Inside-R, Revo’s new(?) community.

And promptly shot up a blog application.

What makes Inside- R- slightly better than SDC, Analyticbridge,PlanetR and R _bloggers (with due respects)

Open Id logins (I think thats a new and good step)
Options for automated feed parsing for blogs
More than just a blog aggregator- includes sections on other stuff- thus more like a community than a big feed
Abbreviated feeds- just gives you two-three lines of summary per post than the whole big schmakaround -thats a time saver for me —(D Smith is the only -lonely blogger atm there)
The more the merrier- One more place to read and write R.

btw is the name insider (as in guy who knows inside stuff) or Inside- R (as in get inside the R box)- just kidding. With PlyR, ManipulatR, ApplyR and now Inside R- the pun gets MerrieR

If my blog app gets rejected- these views may change ,grr

R-bloggers for other languages – wanna join? (r-bloggers.com)
National Thank a Blogger Day (mom-101.com)
WoW Insider is available on your Amazon Kindle (wow.joystiq.com)
Revolution Analytics Launches Inside-R.org for the Open Source R Statistics Community (eon.businesswire.com)
Chasing Value: Oracle Insiders Selling as Stock Hits 52-Week High (bloggingstocks.com)
Is it me or does blogging suck up a lot of time? from Gothridge Manor (gothridgemanor.blogspot.com)
Inside-R.org, a new community site for R (revolutionanalytics.com)

LibreOffice News and Google Musings

Tux, the Linux penguin — Image via Wikipedia

Official Bloggers on LibreOffice- http://planet.documentfoundation.org/

Note- for some strange reason I continue to be on top ranked LibreOffice blogs- maybe because I write more on the software itself than on Oracle politics or coffee spillovers.

LibreOffice Beta 2 is ready and I just installed it on Windows 7 – works nice- and I somehow think open Office and Google needs an example to stop being so scary on cautioning—— hey,hey it’s a beta – (do you see Oracle saying this release is a beta or Windows saying hey this Windows Vista is a beta for Windows 7- No right?)-

see screenshot of solver in LibreOffice spreadsheet -works just fine.

We cant wait for Chromium OS and LibreOffice integration (or Google Docs-LibreOffice integration) so Google starts thinking on those lines (of course

Google also needs to ramp up Google Storage and Google Predict API– but dude are you sure you wanna take on Amazon, Oracle and MS and Yahoo and Apple at the same time. Dear Herr Schmidt- Last German Guy who did that , ended up in a bunker in Berlin. (Ever since I had to pay 50 euros as Airline Transit fee -yes Indian passport holders have to do that in Germany- I am kind of non objective on that issue)

Google Management is busy nowadays thinking of trying to beat Facebook -hint -hint-

-buy out the biggest app makers of Facebook apps and create an api for Facebook info download and upload into Orkut –maybe invest like an angel in that startup called Diaspora http://www.joindiaspora.com/) see-

Back to the topic (and there are enough people blogging on Google should or shouldnt do)

-LibreOffice aesthetically rocks! It has a cool feel.

More news- The Wiki is up and awaits you at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation

And there is a general pow-wow scheduled at http://www.oookwv.de/ for the Open Office Congress (Kongress)

As you can see I used the Chrome Extension for Google Translate for an instant translation from German into English (though it still needs some work, Herr Translator)