Features

Web Data Quality: A 6 Step Process To Evolve Your Mental Model, by Avinash Kaushik

The Million Dollar Programming Prize, by Robert Bell, Jim Bennett, Yehuda Koren, and Chris Volinsky

Netflix's bounty for improving its movie-recommendation software is almost in the bag. Here is one team's account

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz on personalization, Greg Linden

So Yahoo wants to filter and recommend relevant content based on what it knows about you. Is this a new goal for Yahoo?

StatPlot: Visualize and Share Sports Statistics

StatPlot [statplot.com] puts the power of creating charts in the hands of sports fans. As the avid infosthetics reader should already know, there are other services that allow you to upload data and create a variety of visualizations, such as Chartle, Verifiable, Many Eyes, Swivel, iCharts, Trendrr, Widgenie, Track-n-Graph and Timetric.

Text Analytics Summit Review, by Manya Mayes

The themes dominating the conference were: sentiment analysis, social media analysis, social network analysis, voice of the customer, eDiscovery, Web search, visualization, SaaS and Cloud.

Wordtree for Visual Text Exploration

Analytics can be all about having the right tool for the job. When your data is text, traditional analysis tools (e.g. Excel, OLAP tools) are like peeling a mango with a chainsaw. There are a number of visual exploration tools specifically designed for text data ...

Five Common Mistakes in Analytic Projects, by Bob Grossman.

Mistake 1. Underestimating the time required to get the data.