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Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - Wikipedia

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:32:32 +0000

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - Wikipedia:

Useful overview of the standard folders on a *nix system.

FREE Date Dimension Tool Kit

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:56:51 +0000

Don McMunn’s FREEWARE Date Dimension Tool Kit - Includes: Table structure, Source data, SQL Server, day or date level, CSV, tab-delimited, Excel, 4-4-5 and Gregorian calendar for download, dim_date,…

So, if you take a set of real life numeric data (e.g. sales figures, customer sat scores, baseball...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:32:45 +0000

So, if you take a set of real life numeric data (e.g. sales figures, customer sat scores, baseball game attendance figures) stripped the first digit off each number and counted those up what would the distribution of numbers be? i.e how many 7s would there be? How many 2s? Would there be a pattern to the distribution? The answer is actually yes. It’s known to many number crunchers as Benford’s Law.

Here’s the Wikipedia definition: Benford’s law, also called the first-digit law, states…

BookFresh: Online Scheduling and Appointment Booking Software

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:38:58 +0100

BookFresh: Online Scheduling and Appointment Booking Software:

BookFresh is online scheduling and appointment booking software that grows your business Easy online appointment scheduling
Advertises your services locally
Reminds clients of their…

In the latest Mind Matters, the psychologists Henry L. Roediger and Bridgid Finn review some...

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:12:07 +0100

In the latest Mind Matters, the psychologists Henry L. Roediger and Bridgid Finn review some interesting new work by Nate Kornell and colleagues, which looked at the advantages of learning through error. Conventional pedagogy assumes that the best way to teach children is to have them repeatedly practice once they know the right answer, so that the correct response gets embedded into the brain. (According to this approach, it’s important to avoid mistakes while learning so that our…

Data Warehousing on a Limited Budget - A Hypothetical Case Study

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:48:50 +0100

Data Warehousing on a Limited Budget - A Hypothetical Case Study:

Could you build a data warehouse with one additional staff member, a little outside help, and a technology budget of $50,000? We have decided to take that challenge here and see where it leads.

Oracle Information Schema | Get Oracle Information Schema at SourceForge.net

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:38:56 +0100

Oracle Information Schema | Get Oracle Information Schema at SourceForge.net:

Oracle does not support the SQL standard INFORMATION_SCHEMA data dictionary. This project creates an information_schema schema and adds views compliant to the SQL standard. These views are SQL and…

Architecting an Agile Data Warehouse

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:24:37 +0100

Architecting an Agile Data Warehouse:

Six Architecture Principles for an Agile Data Warehouse
Here are six architecture principles that can be used to create an agile data warehouse. Each one contributes toward the goal of enabling rapid…

del.icio.us plugin for Google Quick Search Box

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:28:51 +0100

del.icio.us plugin for Google Quick Search Box

Robin Hanson » Cut Medicine in Half

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:28:51 +0100

Robin Hanson » Cut Medicine in Half:

Brilliant essay by Robin Hanson on the usefulness (lack of) and effectiveness of medical spending.

RedR: A dataflow programming interface for R

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:08:14 +0100

RedR: A dataflow programming interface for R:

RedR is a dataflow programming interface for R designed to bring the power of the R statistical environment to the general researcher or user. The goal of this project is to provide access to the…

Orange - Data Mining Fruitful & Fun

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:08:14 +0100

Orange - Data Mining Fruitful & Fun:

Open source data visualization and analysis for novice and experts. Data mining through visual programming or Python scripting. Extensions for bioinformatics and text mining. Comprehensive, flexible…

BI SaaS Vendors Are Not Created Equal

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:37:09 +0100

BI SaaS Vendors Are Not Created Equal:

I recently talked to a few dozen non-IT professionals (specifically in front office roles, such as sales and marketing) across multiple industries, regions and company sizes. Guess how many of them…

http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/images/a/ab/HickeyJVMSummit2009.pdf

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:37:09 +0100

http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/images/a/ab/HickeyJVMSummit2009.pdf:

Are we being well served by the popular OO languages?
Have we reached consensus that this is the best way to build software?
Is there any evidence that this is so?
Is conventional OO a known good? Or…

Effective A/B Testing - Making money with statistics

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:02:20 +0100

Effective A/B Testing - Making money with statistics:

What is A/B Testing? Develop two versions of a page
Randomly show different versions to users
Track how users perform
Evaluate (that’s where statistics comes in)
Use the better version
Why A/B test?…

IT Analyst Twitter Directory « SageCircle Blog

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:39:59 +0100

IT Analyst Twitter Directory « SageCircle Blog:

Comprehensive list of the IT industry analysts on Twitter. Sadly it doesn’t have any tags for their speciality and you really *can’t* follow all of these people. Analysts tweet *a lot*. :)

Streams on Wires — A Query Compiler for FPGAs

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:10:17 +0100

Streams on Wires — A Query Compiler for FPGAs:

Taking advantage of many-core, heterogeneous hardware for data processing tasks is a difficult problem. In this paper, we consider the use of FPGAs for data stream processing as co- processors in…

ActiveScaffold :: A Ruby on Rails plugin for dynamic, AJAX CRUD interfaces

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:59:43 +0100

ActiveScaffold :: A Ruby on Rails plugin for dynamic, AJAX CRUD interfaces:

Most web applications have many more model objects exposed on the backend, or admin side, than they do on the front. Coding interfaces for all those models is redundant and a waste of resources when…

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:59:43 +0100

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction:

“Like others, we had a sense that reinforcement learning had been thoroughly explored in the early days of cybernetics and artificial intelligence. On closer inspection, though, we found that it had…

Hobo - the web application builder for Rails

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:59:43 +0100

Hobo - the web application builder for Rails:

Hobo is a collection of open-source plugins for Ruby on Rails that help you build anything from throwaway prototypes and internal utilities to meticulously crafted full-blown web apps. The goal:…