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The Year 2010

My annual traffic to this blog was almost 99,000 . Add in additional views on networking sites plus the 400 plus RSS readers- so I can say traffic was 1,20,000 for 2010. Nice. Thanks for reading and hope it was worth your time. (this is a long post and will take almost 440 secs to read but the summary is just given)

My intent is either to inform you, give something useful or atleast something interesting.

see below-

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun

2010	6,311	4,701	4,922	5,463	6,493	4,271

Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total

5,041

5,403

17,913

16,430

11,723

10,096

98,767

Sandro Saita from http://www.dataminingblog.com/ just named me for an award on his blog (but my surname is ohRi , Sandro left me without an R- What would I be without R :)) ).

Aw! I am touched. Google for “Data Mining Blog” and Sandro is the best that it is in data mining writing.

”

DMR People Award 2010
There are a lot of active people in the field of data mining. You can discuss with them on forums. You can read their blogs. You can also meet them in events such as PAW or KDD. Among the people I follow on a regular basis, I have elected:

Ajay Ori

He has been very active in 2010, especially on his blog . Good work Ajay and continue sharing your experience with us!”

What did I write in 2010- stuff.

What did you read on this blog- well thats the top posts list.

2009-12-31 to Today

Title		Views
Home page		21,150
Top 10 Graphical User Interfaces in Statistical Software		6,237
Wealth = function (numeracy, memory recall)		2,014
Matlab-Mathematica-R and GPU Computing		1,946
The Top Statistical Softwares (GUI)		1,405
About DecisionStats		1,352
Using Facebook Analytics (Updated)		1,313
Test drive a Chrome notebook.		1,170
Top ten RRReasons R is bad for you ?		1,157
Libre Office		1,151
Interview Hadley Wickham R Project Data Visualization Guru		1,007
Using Red R- R with a Visual Interface		854
SAS Institute files first lawsuit against WPS- Episode 1		790
Interview Professor John Fox Creator R Commander		764
R Package Creating		754
Windows Azure vs Amazon EC2 (and Google Storage)		726
Norman Nie: R GUI and More		716
Startups for Geeks		682
Google Maps – Jet Ski across Pacific Ocean		670
Not so AWkward after all: R GUI RKWard		579
Red R 1.8- Pretty GUI		570
Parallel Programming using R in Windows		569
R is an epic fail or is it just overhyped		559
Enterprise Linux rises rapidly:New Report		537
Rapid Miner- R Extension		518
Creating a Blog Aggregator for free		504
So which software is the best analytical software? Sigh- It depends		473
Revolution R for Linux		465
John Sall sets JMP 9 free to tango with R		460

So how do people come here –

well I guess I owe Tal G for almost 9000 views ( incidentally I withdrew posting my blog from R- Bloggers and Analyticbridge blogs – due to SEO keyword reasons and some spam I was getting see (below))

http://r-bloggers.com is still the CAT’s whiskers and I read it a lot.

I still dont know who linked my blog to a free sex movie site with 400 views but I have a few suspects.

2009-12-31 to Today

Referrer	Views
r-bloggers.com	9,131
Reddit	3,829
rattle.togaware.com	1,500
Twitter	1,254
Google Reader	1,215
linkedin.com	717
freesexmovie.irwanaf.com	422
analyticbridge.com	341
Google	327
coolavenues.com	322
Facebook	317
kdnuggets.com	298
dataminingblog.com	278
en.wordpress.com	185
google.co.in	151
xianblog.wordpress.com	130
inside-r.org	124
decisionstats.com	119
ifreestores.com	117
bits.blogs.nytimes.com	108

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Still reading this post- gosh let me sell you some advertising. It is only $100 a month (yes its a recession)

Advertisers are treated on First in -Last out (FILO)

I have been told I am obsessed with SEO , but I dont care much for search engines apart from Google, and yes SEO is an interesting science (they should really re name it GEO or Google Engine Optimization)

Apparently Hadley Wickham and Donald Farmer are big keywords for me so I should be more respectful I guess.

Search Terms for 365 days ending 2010-12-31 (Summarized)

2009-12-31 to Today

Search	Views
libre office	925
facebook analytics	798
test drive a chrome notebook	467
test drive a chrome notebook.	215
r gui	203
data mining	163
wps sas lawsuit	158
wordle.net	133
wps sas	123
google maps jet ski	123
test drive chrome notebook	96
sas wps	89
sas wps lawsuit	85
chrome notebook test drive	83
decision stats	83
best statistics software	74
hadley wickham	72
google maps jetski	72
libreoffice	70
doug savage	65
hive tutorial	58
funny india	56
spss certification	52
donald farmer microsoft	51
best statistical software	49

What about outgoing links? Apparently I need to find a way to ask Google to pay me for the free advertising I gave their chrome notebook launch. But since their search engine and browser is free to me, guess we are even steven.

Clicks for 365 days ending 2010-12-31 (Summarized)

2009-12-31 to Today

URL	Clicks
rattle.togaware.com	378
facebook.com/Decisionstats	355
rapid-i.com/content/view/182/196	319
services.google.com/fb/forms/cr48basic	313
red-r.org	228
decisionstats.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/the-top-statistical-softwares-gui	199
teamwpc.co.uk/products/wps	162
r4stats.com/popularity	148
r-statistics.com/2010/04/r-and-the-google-summer-of-code-2010-accepted-students-and-projects	138
socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr	138
spss.com/certification	116
learnr.wordpress.com	114
dudeofdata.com/decisionstats	108
r-project.org	107
documentfoundation.org/faq	104
goo.gl/maps/UISY	100
inside-r.org/download	96
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/R_Programming	92
nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/12/07/07readwriteweb-report-google-offering-chrome-notebook-test-11919.html	92
sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/rkward/index.php?title=Main_Page	92
analyticdroid.togaware.com	88
yeroon.net/ggplot2	87

so in 2010,

SAS remained top daddy in business analytics,

R made revolutionary strides in terms of new packages,

JMP launched a new version,

SPSS got integrated with Cognos,

Oracle sued Google and did build a great Data Mining GUI,

Libre Office gave you a non Oracle Open office ( or open even more office)

2011 looks like a fun year. Have safe partying .

IBM SPSS 19 Now Available to the Global Academic Community via e-academy’s OnTheHub eStore (prweb.com)
ACM Data Mining Camp 3 (revolutionanalytics.com)
Accessing R from Python using RPy2 (r-bloggers.com)
Mining of Massive Data Sets (kinlane.com)
5 FeedBurner Alternatives You Should Know About (techie-buzz.com)
Uncertainty, Risk, Statistics and Data Mining (zyxo.wordpress.com)
‘Data Mining’ Gains Traction in Education (edreformer.com)
If you cut your RSS short I will ignore your post (chrisabraham.com)
Solar trends for 2011 (cleanbreak.ca)

Top Cartoonists:Updated

Here is a list of cartoonists I follow- I sometimes think they make more sense than all the news media combined.

1) Mike Luckovich He is a Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist for AJC at http://blogs.ajc.com/mike-luckovich/

I love his political satire-sometimes not his politics- though he is a liberal (surprisingly most people from creative arts tend to be liberal- guess because they support and need welfare more, 🙂 ) Since I am in India- I call myself a conservative (when filing taxes) or liberal (when drinking er tea)

2) Hugh Mcleod- of Gaping Void is very different from Mike above, in the way an abstract painter would be from a classical

artist. I like his satire on internet, technology and personal favorite – social media consultants. Hugh casts a critical eye on the world of tech and is an immensely successful artist- probably the Andy Warhol of this genre in a generation.

3) Doug Savage of Savage Chickens http://www.savagechickens.com/ has a great series of funny cartoons based on chickens drawn on Post it notes. While his drawing is less abstract than Hugh’s above, he sometimes touches an irreverent note more like Hugh than anyone else.

4) Professor Jorge Cham of Phd Comics http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php is probably the most read comic in grad school – and probably the only cartoonist with a Phd I know of.

5) Scott Adams of Dilbert http://www.dilbert.com/ is probably the first “non kid stuff” cartoonist I started reading-in fact I once wrote to him asking for advice on my poetry to his credit- he replied with a single ” Best of Luck email”

They named our email server in Lucknow, UP, India for him (in my business school at http://iiml.ac.in ) Probably the best of corporate toon humor. Maybe they should make the Dilbert movie yet.

6) Randall Munroe of xkcd.com

XKCD is geek cartooning at its best.

For catching up with the best toons in a week, the best is Time.com ‘s weekly list at http://www.time.com/time/cartoonsoftheweek

It is the best collection of political cartoons.

An Obama Presidency May Be Rough Going for Political Cartoonists [Obama Era] (gawker.com)
Palling Around With Monuments [This Thing Looks Like That Thing] (gawker.com)
the microaudience: the mot likely way to make money on the internet (gapingvoid.com)
Cartoon(ist) of the Week – Joel Pett (underthelobsterscope.wordpress.com)
Sweden suicide bombings: I’m a constant target, says cartoonist – Telegraph.co.uk (news.google.com)
Indy cartoonist elated to find torrents of his work (boingboing.net)
Six Cartoonists Tour Afghanistan w/USO (waronterrornews.typepad.com)
Dilbert & Medicine (ivor-kovic.com)
Nigerian Cartoonist Tayo Fatunla (theworld.org)

Light Cycle of Tron review

I really enjoyed the Light Cycle race in Tron- so instead of naming this the Tron Legacy Review- I call this Light cycle review.

The movie is a geek must check it out- and the mix of music, models,cars, and lights can be heady at first. The younger Jeff Bridges looks like a BeoWolf, and his son is ok. But Olivia Wilde is nice- and the cars and bikes are superb. If you like playing video games then check out the free game at http://armagetronad.net/downloads.php Its called Armagedtron.

And boy the 80s was a great time for pop music and video games.

TRON: Evolution: Battle Grids — Light Cycles, Light Tanks But Not Light On The Fun (g4tv.com)
Disney hopes “Tron” videogames extend franchise (reuters.com)
Dreaming Up Tron: Legacy’s Sexy Sirens, Wicked Light Cycles and Other Killer Visuals (wired.com)
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Tron and Tron Legacy [Tron] (io9.com)
Tron searches dominated by Daft Punk soundtrack and light cycle game (weblogs.hitwise.com)
Tron: Legacy (entertainment.slashdot.org)

2011 Forecast-ying

I had recently asked some friends from my Twitter lists for their take on 2011, atleast 3 of them responded back with the answer, 1 said they were still on it, and 1 claimed a recent office event.

Anyways- I take note of the view of forecasting from

http://www.uiah.fi/projekti/metodi/190.htm

The most primitive method of forecasting is guessing. The result may be rated acceptable if the person making the guess is an expert in the matter.

Ajay- people will forecast in end 2010 and 2011. many of them will get forecasts wrong, some very wrong, but by Dec 2011 most of them would be writing forecasts on 2012. almost no one will get called on by irate users-readers- (hey you got 4 out of 7 wrong last years forecast!) just wont happen. people thrive on hope. so does marketing. in 2011- and before

and some forecasts from Tom Davenport’s The International Institute for Analytics (IIA) at

http://iianalytics.com/2010/12/2011-predictions-for-the-analytics-industry/

Regulatory and privacy constraints will continue to hamper growth of marketing analytics.

(I wonder how privacy and analytics can co exist in peace forever- one view is that model building can use anonymized data suppose your IP address was anonymized using a standard secret Coco-Cola formula- then whatever model does get built would not be of concern to you individually as your privacy is protected by the anonymization formula)

Anyway- back to the question I asked-

What are the top 5 events in your industry (events as in things that occured not conferences) and what are the top 3 trends in 2011.

I define my industry as being online technology writing- research (with a heavy skew on stat computing)

My top 5 events for 2010 were-

1) Consolidation- Big 5 software providers in BI and Analytics bought more, sued more, and consolidated more. The valuations rose. and rose. leading to even more smaller players entering. Thus consolidation proved an oxy moron as total number of influential AND disruptive players grew.

2) Cloudy Computing- Computing shifted from the desktop but to the mobile and more to the tablet than to the cloud. Ipad front end with Amazon Ec2 backend- yup it happened.

3) Open Source grew louder- yes it got more clients. and more revenue. did it get more market share. depends on if you define market share by revenues or by users.

Both Open Source and Closed Source had a good year- the pie grew faster and bigger so no one minded as long their slices grew bigger.

4) We didnt see that coming –

Technology continued to surprise with events (thats what we love! the surprises)

Revolution Analytics broke through R’s Big Data Barrier, Tableau Software created a big Buzz, Wikileaks and Chinese FireWalls gave technology an entire new dimension (though not universally popular one).

people fought wars on emails and servers and social media- unfortunately the ones fighting real wars in 2009 continued to fight them in 2010 too

5) Money-

SAP,SAS,IBM,Oracle,Google,Microsoft made more money than ever before. Only Facebook got a movie named on itself. Venture Capitalists pumped in money in promising startups- really as if in a hurry to park money before tax cuts expired in some countries.

2011 Top Three Forecasts

1) Surprises- Expect to get surprised atleast 10 % of the time in business events. As internet grows the communication cycle shortens, the hype cycle amplifies buzz-

more unstructured data is created (esp for marketing analytics) leading to enhanced volatility

2) Growth- Yes we predict technology will grow faster than the automobile industry. Game changers may happen in the form of Chrome OS- really its Linux guys-and customer adaptability to new USER INTERFACES. Design will matter much more in technology on your phone, on your desktop and on your internet. Packaging sells.

False Top Trend 3) I will write a book on business analytics in 2011. yes it is true and I am working with A publisher. No it is not really going to be a top 3 event for anyone except me,publisher and lucky guys who read it.

3) Creating technology and technically enabling creativity will converge at an accelerated rate. use of widgets, guis, snippets, ide will ensure creative left brains can code easier. and right brains can design faster and better due to a global supply chain of techie and artsy professionals.

Google Chrome OS Hardware Vanishes In The Cloud (informationweek.com)
Google’s Chrome OS notebook gets unboxed, prodded, and praised (linuxfordevices.com)
Why we removed the WikiLeaks visualizations | Tableau Software (tableausoftware.com)
Tableau Software Adds In-Memory Database Engine (customerthink.com)
Sales Forecasting Methods & Models (thinkup.waldenu.edu)
Revolution Analytics Introduces Enterprise-Class Application Integration, Deployment & Administration for R (eon.businesswire.com)
HTC estimates it will ship 60 million handsets in 2011 [TNW Mobile] (thenextweb.com)
Lexalytics Predicts State of Text and Sentiment Analysis Market 2011 (prweb.com)
Social Business Forecast: 2011 The Year of Integration (e1evation.com)
Forecast: iPad share of Net traffic to double in a year (news.cnet.com)

Facebook Gmail Killer Threatens to commit Hara Kari live on AOL Techcrunch if unsucessful

As per Techcrunch–http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/11/facebook-gmail-titan/

Project Titan — a web-based email client that we hear is unofficially referred to internally as its “Gmail killer”. Now we’ve heard from sources that this is indeed what’s coming on Monday during Facebook’s special event, alongside personal @facebook.com email addresses for users.

Now Techcrunch always tells the Truth and the Gospel as per Mike is always right, especially when he is talking of gates of heaven and Angels.

Again as per the newly rich Mike Arringotn (who qualifies to be an Angel Investor himself except AOL has locked in his err wings)

Our understanding is that this is more than just a UI refresh for Facebook’s existing messaging service with POP access tacked on. Rather, Facebook is building a full-fledged webmail client, and while it may only be in early stages come its launch Monday, there’s a huge amount of potential here.

Facebook has the world’s most popular photos product, the most popular events product, and soon will have a very popular local deals product as well. It can tweak the design of its webmail client to display content from each of these in a seamless fashion (and don’t forget messages from games, or payments via Facebook Credits). And there’s also the social element: Facebook knows who your friends are and how closely you’re connected to them; it can probably do a pretty good job figuring out which personal emails you want to read most and prioritize them accordingly.

Oh, and assuming our sources prove accurate, this explains the timing of the Google/Facebook slap fight over contact information.

In an exclusive chat with Decisionstats, Senior VP Eduard Patel Bumberg said- This is it. I am going to kill Gmail. This movie I just had a small part in the mens room while they had the groupies. If we finally kill Gmail, I hope to get a much bigger part in Social Network 3.

New The new Facebook email gives you lesses spam (primarily) as it leans on its contacts in the Cosa Nostra of Spam- and tell them no spam to .fb books.

Yes Anyone is someone in spam has had a connection in the spam pie in Facebook, like creating duplicate 50 million accounts just before the movie got launched, inflating the number of daily Farmville players, invites, links .

Arringutan even covered some of it in an earlier FB game called scamville.

Saint Mark and Mike would have approved Senior VP Eduard Patel Bumberg decision to either kill Gmail or commit hara kari live on U Stream. It is good for the sequel.

John Sall sets JMP 9 free to tango with R

John Sall, founder SAS AND JMP , has released the latest blockbuster edition of flagship of JMP 9 (JMP Stands for John’s Macintosh Program).

To kill all birds with one software, it is integrated with R and SAS, and the brochure frankly lists all the qualities. Why am I excited for JMP 9 integration with R and with SAS- well it integrates bigger datasets manipulation (thanks to SAS) with R’s superb library of statistical packages and a great statistical GUI (JMP). This makes JMP the latest software apart from SAS/IML, Rapid Miner,Knime, Oracle Data Miner to showcase it’s R integration (without getting into the GPL compliance need for showing source code– it does not ship R- and advises you to just freely download R). I am sure Peter Dalgaard, and Frankie Harell are all overjoyed that R Base and Hmisc packages would be used by fellow statisticians and students for JMP- which after all is made in the neighborhood state of North Carolina.

Best of all a JMP 30 day trial is free- so no money lost if you download JMP 9 (and no they dont ask for your credit card number, or do they- but they do have a huuuuuuge form to register before you download. Still JMP 9 the software itself is more thoughtfully designed than the email-prospect-leads-form and the extra functionality in the free 30 day trial is worth it.

Also see “New Features in JMP 9 http://www.jmp.com/software/jmp9/pdf/new_features.pdf

which has this regarding R.

Working with R

R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. JMP now supports a set of JSL functions to access R. The JSL functions provide the following options:

• open and close a connection between JMP and R

• exchange data between JMP and R

•submit R code for execution

•display graphics produced by R

JMP and R each have their own sets of computational methods.

R has some methods that JMP does not have. Using JSL functions, you can connect to R and use these R computational methods from within JMP.

Textual output and error messages from R appear in the log window.R must be installed on the same computer as JMP.

JMP is not distributed with a copy of R. You can download R from the Comprehensive R Archive Network Web site:http://cran.r-project.org

Because JMP is supported as both a 32-bit and a 64-bit Windows application, you must install the corresponding 32-bit or 64-bit version of R.

For details, see the Scripting Guide book.

and the download trial page ( search optimized URL) –

http://www.sas.com/apps/demosdownloads/jmptrial9_PROD__sysdep.jsp?packageID=000717&jmpflag=Y

In related news (Richest man in North Carolina also ranks nationally(charlotte.news14.com) , Jim Goodnight is now just as rich as Mark Zuckenberg, creator of Facebook-

though probably they are not creating a movie on Jim yet (imagine a movie titled “The Statistical Software” -not just the same dude feel as “The Social Network”)

See John’s latest interview :

The People Behind the Software: John Sall

http://blogs.sas.com/jmp/index.php?/archives/352-The-People-Behind-the-Software-John-Sall.html

Interview John Sall Founder JMP/SAS Institute

https://decisionstats.com/2009/07/28/interview-john-sall-jmp/

SAS Early Days

https://decisionstats.com/2010/06/02/sas-early-days/