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Blog Update

Some changes at Decisionstats-

1) We are back at Decisionstats.com and Decisionstats.wordpress.com will point to that as well. The SEO effects would be interesting and so would be the Instant Pagerank or LinkRank or whatever Coffee/Percolator they use in Cali to index the site.

2) AsterData is no longer a sponsor- but Predictive Analytics Conference is. Welcome PAWS! I have been a blog partner to PAWS ever since it began- and it’s a great marketing fit. Expect to see a lot of exclusive content and interviews from great speakers at PAWS.

3) The Feedblitz newsletter (now at 404 subscribers) is now a weekly subscription to send one big big email rather than lots of email through the week- this is because my blogging frequency is moving up as I collect material for a new book on business analytics that I would probably release in 2011 (if all goes well, touchwood). Linkedin group would be getting a weekly update announcement. If you are connected to Decisionstats on Analyticbridge _ I would soon try to find a way to update the whole post automatically using RSS and Ning.com . or not. Depends.

4) R continues to be a bigger focus. So will SPSS and maybe JMP. Newer softwares or older softwares that change more rapidly would get more coverage. Generally a particular software is covered if it has newer features, or an interesting techie conference, or it gets sued.

5) I will occasionally write a poem or post a video once a week randomly to prove geeks and nerds and analysts can have fun (much more fun actually dont we)

Thanks for reading this. Sept 2010 was the best ever for Decisionstats.com – we crossed 15,000 + visitors and thanks for that again! I promise to bore you less and less as we grow old together on the blog 😉

SAP gets social media with micro-apps webinars

A commendable re design by SAP in it’s social media especially social media through Videos and Webinars

I especially like the cute graphics which sum up the Social Media presence for SAP- like their own personalized Twitter Buttons. see screenshots below

Advanced Analytics on Multi-Terabyte Datasets- Conferences

Some news on Data Mining 2009 by Aster Data –

SAS and Aster Data to Present “Advanced Analytics on Multi-Terabyte Datasets” at M2009 in Las Vegas – Oct. 26-27
Learn how the tight coupling of SQL and MapReduce provided by Aster Data creates new ‘big data’ analytics opportunities when combined with SAS. Aster Data will exhibit throughout the event.
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And also a nice  webcast by Curt Monash on the same Big Data topic-

Mastering MapReduce Webinar Series, Session 1
“Big Data Reality: The Role of MapReduce in Big Data Management and Analysis”- Oct. 15
Industry analyst Curt Monash explains the basics of MapReduce, key uses cases, and which industries and applications are heavily using MapReduce. Topics include recommendations for integrating MapReduce in an enterprise business intelligence and data warehousing environment.
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Also,

Here is a brief synopsis on the Aster Data ( http://www.facebook.com/pages/Aster-Data-Systems/5601042375) Sponsored Big Data Summit  ( http://www.facebook.com/pages/Big-Data-Summit/143312171156 )which I attended-

  • A Plan for Large Scale Data Analytics: How to Utilize Aster nCluster and Hadoop in a Symbiotic
    Relationship to Support Processing in Excess of 100 Billion Rows Per Month
    – Michael Brown and Will Duckworth
    (EVP, Software Engineering, comScore, Inc. and Director, Software Engineering, comScore, Inc.)

This talked of the special needs of Com Score in handling big data and why Map Reduce and Hadoop seem to be the cost effective solutions for big big data while RDBMS seems stuck in the middle of middle data. Broadly informative on the statistical challenges of the future given the explosion of data as well.

  • Making Sense of Hadoop – Its Fit With Data Warehouses – Colin White
    (President and Founder of BI Research)

Colin brought a nice perspective on the open source Hadoop vis a vis the Properietary packages and the traditional DBMS. His perspective on the solution is no software is perfect for all needs while all softwares that sell have their own good points while the converging solution could be a heterogeneous solution of the above.

  • MapReduce Inside a Database System – When and How Case Studies from ShareThis, Specific Media, and Other – Tasso Argyros (Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Aster Data)

This was a more detailed look at the Big Product Launch ( the Hadoop Connector) by Tasso and an interesting look at time series analysis using nPath rather than SQL . Interesting given the ongoing convergence analytics and business intelligence.

Also Tasso lived up to his presenting charm with an excellent pitch on nPath (as his interview said ).

  • Large-Scale Analytics at LinkedIn – Jonathan Goldman
    (Former Principal Scientist at LinkedIn)

This was nice given Jonathan’s perscpective ( he has Phd In Physics) and now does consulting for LinkedIn while maintaining his interests in education- the special needs for social media websites, designing experiments on the fly with huge real time datasets as well as some interesting visualizations (like India and America have the second biggest cross country Li connections after USA- UK. Apparently Linkedin ( http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2211231478 ) does not sound so good when translated in Chinese ( AT Dinner I learnt from a fellow Chinese student that China censors Facebook – sigh!).

  • Networking Mixer: Beer, wine, hot hors d’oeuvres

I got interviewed ( AFTER) I had mixed some Beer and Wine for myself. The Video interview which was the first video interview I have given ( You know- I have taken SOME interviews by Email and plan to do some more while in Vegas for the Data Mining 2009  with SAS http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2227381262)

They are still editing that interview 😉

—That was all – you need to send me a Facebook invite to see the rest of the NY trip or better still just join the Facebook page of Decision Stats at

http://www.facebook.com/pages/DecisionStats/191421035186

After two weeks I hope to have some more coverage on Data Mining 2009 while at the same time enjoying my much needed Fall Break-  Life at University at Tennessee is looking up ( since we beat Georgia 45-19 🙂 )

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LinkedIn Apps : Blogging and Twitter

I like the following two LinkedIn Apps the most for sheer usefulness .Try them out – the blog gets extra readers and Company Buzz helps you track company. See them right below the all new LinkedIn inbox.

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This would take you to the Application Directory.

http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=application_directory

The WordPress blog helps me when I need to post some article to one of the 50 groups.

I then use the Add to Any button from www.addtoany.com and click share on LinkedIn.

LinkedIn indeed is quite convenient for sharing ( but be careful of overdoing it –lest it goes spam)

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I use the Company Buzz with a slight twist though.By using broad keywords I get a list of say people I want to follow in the world of data mining or business intelligence.

Next I follow NOT the people following the influential tweeters, but the people who they are using RT or messaging replies @.

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Hope this helps your LinkedIn account. You can send me a LinkedIn Invite at www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri .

And do take part in the Social Media School group on LinkedIn here http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1854626

Metrics and Tools for Social Media Analysis

 

An interesting question put on Linkedin group here by James Wright  is

What kind of metrics are currently out there for social media marketing?

Some responses were –

  • number of "friends" on Facebook, Myspace, and LinkedIn,
  • number of blog subscribers,
  • number of comments on blog posts,
  • the number of links to blog posts,
  • the number of brand related tweets
  • where your leads are coming from
  • a Google alert for phrases that are important to your business,
  • referrals from embedded content/re-tweets that originated (use www.tr.im)
  • ROI
  • a follow-up email or sign-up page that asks "How did you hear about us?"
  • Cost per lead,
  • cost per engagement,
  • cost per action

 

Some recommended tools were  –

 

(Ajay- Let me know if you know any more tools or metrics for social media measurement )

Linkedin Tools : Getting job and contract

Here is a great tool by Linkedin to do the following – get a J   O  B

Where is it located ?

Look on Linked Page – Footer Area

Look in Row called Tools

Click on Jobs Insider

You get the below webpage-

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Download and follow as per your browser. No Download for Chrome users.

But firefox is good enough.

 

Download it here

http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=jobsinsider_download&trk=hb_ft_jobsins

 

And enjoy Linkedin ‘s tool which is more useful than all the Facebook applications put together ….

Linked In takes on Yahoo AND Google (Groups)

From The Linked in Email

“This Friday, we will be adding several much-requested features to your group:

Discussion forums: Simple discussion spaces for you and your members. (You can turn discussions off in your management control panel if you like.)
Enhanced roster: Searchable list of group members.
Digest emails: Daily or weekly digests of new discussion topics which your members may choose to receive. (We will be turning digests on for all current group members soon, and prompting them to set to their own preference.)
Group home page: A private space for your members on LinkedIn. ”

This pitches LI and its 25 million members squarely into the Google groups, Yahoo Groups , List Groups category.
The additional server costs would be managed by the infusion of private equity earlier this year.
Competition just grew hotter.Web 2.0 just became cooler.

And the consumer. He is loving it.