Features

Twitter, The Analytics Provider And Data Mine, by robdiana.

How to Improve Twitter Search, by Matthew Hurst

I'm starting to get Twitter as a publication mechanism, and I've always understood the value of mining the aggregate of tweets for any number of reasons. However, I don't totally get Twitter search.

Google launches personalized advertising, by Greg Linden

Miguel Helft at the New York Times writes in "Google to Offer Ads Based on Interests" that "Google will begin showing ads on Wednesday to people based on their previous online activities in a form of advertising known as behavioral targeting."

Integrating data and text analysis, by James Taylor.

Planning for Predictive Models - Wisdom From Regression Modeling Strategies, Steve Miller

I'm getting ready to start another predictive modeling effort and decided to turn to several trusted stats books for a quick review. Three favorites include Maindonald and Braun's Data Analysis and Graphics Using R, The Elements of Statistical Learning, by Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman, and Frank Harrell's Regression Modeling Strategies.