Google’s dominance on the Internet has been a sore point in Europe, where it controls more than 80 percent of the online search market, compared with about 66 percent in the United States, according to comScore, a research firm.
and
If Google is found in violation of European competition law, the commission has the power to fine it up to 10 percent of its annual revenue, which totaled more than $23 billion last year.
Before settling last year, Microsoft had paid fines of about $2.4 billion over the past decade in a long-running antitrust case in Brussels that focused on the Windows operating system.
In another case, the commission fined Intel about $1.45 billion for abusing its dominance in the computer chip market.
——————————————————————————————
Maybe Google should ask the European Union to buy a groupon for anti trust cases.
Tableau which has been making waves recntly with its great new data visualization tool announced a partner with my old friends at AsterData. Its really cool piece of data vis and very very fast on the desktop- so I can imagine what speed it can help with AsterData’s MPP Row and Column Zingbang AND Parallel Analytical Functions
Tableau and AsterData also share the common Stanfordian connection (but it seems software is divided quite equally between Stanford, Hardvard Dropouts and North Carolina )
It remains to be seen in this announcement how much each company can leverage the partnership or whether it turns like the SAS Institute- AsterData partnership last year or whether it is just to announce connectors in their software to talk to each other.
AsterData remains the guys with the potential but I would be wrong to say MapReduce–SQL is as hot in December 2010 as it was in June 2009- and the elephant in the room would be Hadoop. That and Google’s continued shyness from encashing its principal comptency of handling Big Data (but hush – I signed a NDA with the Google Prediction API– so things maaaay change very rapidly on ahem that cloud)
Disclaimer- AsterData was my internship sponsor during my winter training while at Univ of Tenn.
Predictive Analytics World March 2011 in San Francisco is packed with the top predictive analytics experts, practitioners, authors and business thought leaders, including keynote speakers:
Predictive Analytics World focuses on concrete examples of deployed predictive analytics. Hear from the horse’s mouth precisely how Fortune 500 analytics competitors and other top practitioners deploy predictive modeling, and what kind of business impact it delivers. Click here to view the agenda at-a-glance.
PAW SF 2011 will feature speakers with case studies from leading enterprises. such as:
PAW’s March agenda covers hot topics and advanced methods such as uplift (net lift) modeling, ensemble models, social data, search marketing, crowdsourcing, blackbox trading, fraud detection, risk management, survey analysis and otherinnovative applications that benefit organizations in new and creative ways.
Join PAW and access the best keynotes, sessions, workshops, exposition, expert panel, live demos, networking coffee breaks, reception, birds-of-a-feather lunches, brand-name enterprise leaders, and industry heavyweights in the business.
Here are some jobs from Vincent Granville, founder Analyticbridge. Please contact him directly- I just thought the Season of Joy should have better jobs than currently.
————————————————————————————–
Several job ads recently posted on DataShaping / AnalyticBridge, across United Sates and in Europe. Use the DataShaping search box to find more opportunities.
Jill Dyché is a partner and co-founder of Baseline Consulting. She is responsible for key client strategies and market analysis in the areas of data governance, business intelligence, master data management, and customer relationship management.
Jill counsels boards of directors on the strategic importance of their information investments.
Author
Jill is the author of three books on the business value of IT. Jill’s first book, e-Data (Addison Wesley, 2000) has been published in eight languages. She is a contributor to Impossible Data Warehouse Situations: Solutions from the Experts (Addison Wesley, 2002), and her book, The CRM Handbook (Addison Wesley, 2002), is the bestseller on the topic.
1100 “Friends” on Facebook, and 9429 “Connections” on Linkedin
Deleting Facebook was an emotionally wrenching decision- see this screenshot- I tried to download all my account- family photos (320 mb) but connection kept breaking-
so I had just deactivate and not delete the account. You win, Zuckenberg
How to-
Right Hand Top Corner —-Account Settings- Deactivate Account
After Facebook de activates your account- it mocks you by saying this this in YELLOW “
Your Facebook account has been deactivated.
To reactivate your account, log in using your old login email and password. You will be able to use the site like you used to.
We hope you come back soon.”
I go back to Facebook to download all my family photos before final deletion (and not just de activation)- I get this message
It may take a little while for us to gather all of your photos, wall posts, messages, and other information. We will then ask you to verify your identity in order to help protect the security of your account.
Are you sure you don’t want to reconsider? Was it something we said? Tell us.
Before you deactivate your account, know this:
This action is permanent: account restoration is currently disabled.
You do not need to deactivate your account to change your username. (You can change it on the settings page. All @replies and followers will remain unchanged.)
Your account may be viewable on twitter.com for a few days after deactivation.
We have no control over content indexed by search engines like Google.
If you’re creating a new account and want to use the same user name, phone number and/or email address associated with this account, you must first change them on this account before you deactivate it. If you don’t, the information will be tied to this account and unavailable for use.
Okay, fine, deactivate my account (thats the button)
I clicked the Okay fine Button.
One more pop up-
Re-enter your Twitter password to deactivate @DecisionStats.
Ok Done-
Twitter tries to scare me again —-
You deactivated your account.
Account restoration is currently unavailable. Here is the message you agreed to before deactivating your account:
his action is permanent.
Before you deactivate your account, know this:
This action is permanent: account restoration is currently disabled.
You do not need to deactivate your account to change your username. (You can change it on the settings page. All @replies and followers will remain unchanged.)
Your account may be viewable on twitter.com for a few days after deactivation.
We have no control over content indexed by search engines like Google.
If you’re creating a new account and want to use the same user name, phone number and/or email address associated with this account, you must first change them on this account before you deactivate it. If you don’t, the information will be tied to this account and unavailable for use.
So Long Twitter, I gotta spend more time with my offline family okay.
And probably anyone trying to do sentiment analysis on my twitter feed for social media analytics now has an incomplete data point (hehe)
Last One- Linkedin 9349 connections are valuable- I was thinking of auctioning this on E Bay but they kicked me out.
So I just go for deletion.
I spend 10 minuted looking for the delete account button-this is getting a bit annoying now.
Linkedin neither scares me nor emotionally coddles me – This is what is says-
Closing Your Account
How do I close my account?
Log into the account you wish to close.
Hover your cursor over your name in the top right of your home page and then click “Settings”.
Click on “Close Your Account” under Personal Information.
Select a reason for closing your account.
Click on “Continue”.
Members should only have one LinkedIn account. Multiple accounts can prevent the ability to accept an Invitation. Closing additional accounts should resolve this dilemma. Prior to closing any secondary accounts:
Inventory all connections and identify any that may be missing from the primary account you wish to keep.
Send Invitations to those connections missing from the primary account.
Update any profile information that maybe on other account profiles.
I dont think I will send that many invites again- but some of these people have been good to me ( 18 of them even wrote recommendations- which are non exportable it seems)
I check my downloaded csv file- yup all 9379 email addresses are there.
Final round-
Update- Linkedin does NOT get deleted. I get this-
Your close account request must be processed by customer support for the following reason:
You have more than 250 connections.
You will receive a confirmation email from customer support indicating that they received your request to close your account.
The account that customer support will process for closure is below:
Ajay Ohri
9,429 Connections
16 Recommendations
ohri2007@gmail.com (primary address)
and the email says
Member Comment: ajay ohri
11/24/2010 23:10
Member ID: 6691344 Member Name: Ajay Ohri
The member has attempted to self close this account and was unable because:
The member has a large network of connections to close. Please close during non peak hours.
Please confirm with the member when his or her account has been successfully closed.
So long people- you know where to find me- on this blog (and some on skype).
Using WP- Stats I set about answering this question-
What search keywords lead here-
Clearly Michael Jackson is down this year
And R GUI, Data Mining is up.
How does that affect my writing- given I get almost 250 visitors by search engines alone daily- assume I write nothing on this blog from now on.
It doesnt- I still write what ever code or poem that comes to my mind. So it is hurtful people misunderstimate the effort in writing and jump to conclusions (esp if I write about a company- I am not on payroll of that company- just like if I write about a poem- I am not a full time poet)
Over to xkcd
All Time (for Decisionstats.Wordpress.com)
Search
Views
libre office
818
facebook analytics
806
michael jackson history
240
wps sas lawsuit
180
r gui
168
wps sas
154
wordle.net
118
sas wps
116
decision stats
110
sas wps lawsuit
100
google maps jet ski
94
data mining
88
doug savage
72
hive tutorial
63
spss certification
63
hadley wickham
63
google maps jetski
62
sas sues wps
60
decisionstats
58
donald farmer microsoft
45
libreoffice
44
wps statistics
44
best statistics software
42
r gui ubuntu
41
rstat
37
tamilnadu advanced technical training institute tatti
DECISION STATS 