Features

• The First Digit Law, from TastyResearch, a really good explanation of Benford's law - why the first digit of many natural measures (e.g. population) is 1 more frequently than 9.

• Mahalanobis Distance, a useful distance measure for many data mining tasks.

• AlwaysOn panel: What is the data telling us?, by Greg Linden; Panel participants Peter Norvig (Google), Jim Lanzone (Ask), Usama Fayyad (Yahoo), and Michael Yavonditte (Quigo).

• Effective Counter-Terrorism and the Limited Role of Predictive Data Mining, by Jeff Jonas

• Oracle Data Mining Consultants Partnership Program, by Marcos Campos.

• Nielsen BuzzMetrics In The New York Times

• Estimating Number of Bloggers from Different Countries