The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Crowdsourcing Helps Keep Big Data Companies Straight Posted: 26 Jul 2013 07:06 PM PDT As big data analytics begins picking up steam, we are seeing more and more interesting outlets to learn about different platforms to choose from. Not just catalogs and boastful corporation sites, but insightful criticism. One such recent stop was when we …
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Big Data and Its Less-Than-Gentle Lessons Posted: 01 Aug 2013 06:35 AM PDT I read “9 Big Data Lessons Learned.” The write up is interesting because it explores the buzzword that every azure chip consultant has used in their marketing pitches over the last year. Some true believers have the words Big Data tattooed on …
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Big O Explained: Why Systems Are Alike? Posted: 27 Jul 2013 04:30 AM PDT In several of my recent lectures, I pointed out that most end users cannot differentiate among search systems. The comment made about these systems is often, “Why can’t these systems be like Google?” I concluded that the similarity of requests suggests …
Metadata for Documents Posted: 19 Jul 2013 06:37 PM PDT We read numbers about the amount of time wasted on searching for documents all the time, and they are not pretty. When we stumbled upon Document Cloud, we could not help but wonder if this type of service will help with the productivity and efficiency …
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English Major? You Are Hot and May Not Know It I get quite a few laughs when I point out that my degree is in medieval Latin poetry. Hey, what can I say? The computer science departments at my undergraduate university did not want anyone using the precious mainframe to index Latin anything. The College …
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Big Names Ramping up the Analytics Field Posted: 22 Jul 2013 11:41 AM PDT The world of analytics is getting much more competitive. We’ve been seeing some impressive names belly up to the bar or revamp their already available platforms. One such case we discovered in a recent Daily Finance article, “Actuate’s Newest Release of …
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Autonomy: A New Kind of Search? Autonomy was founded in 1996. That was 17 years ago. In my upcoming KMWorld column for August/September, I point out that search, content processing, and even analytics have been consistent for many years. There are a number of reasons for the “sameness” of systems and the corresponding difficulty prospects …
