December 2009
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Rrrrr
“R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics” (src). And since 10 years, after attendeding classes by Hornik and Leisch in Vienna, I’ve been using it rather sporadically from time to time. But now it seems that I will be able to use it as a (nearly) daily work tool on my task to make sense of all the available data there is. Which is great news, as I...
Dec 22nd
Dec 18th
Data Mining Competitions
KDD Cup 09: CRM scores, i.e. predict churn, appetency and up-selling for a Telco Netflix Prize 06-09 [wikip]: Collaborative Filtering, Recommender Systems DMEF CLV Contest 08: Customer Lifetime Value, Customer Equity; see winning paper by HP Labs Teradata’s CRM Contest 02: Churn Prediction; see winning entry by Salford Systems PAKDD - 2010 Data Mining Competition for Credit Risk...
Dec 13th
Google Search displays live Tweets →
scroll down a bit, to see the latest on Tiger Woods for example
Dec 12th
Dec 11th
Dec 9th
Credit Card Swiper for Everyone →
“Read payment cards from any device with an audio input jack”. Seriously? Wow! [via sierra]
Dec 9th
Discussing The future of Nokia →
very interesting ongoing discussion on the future of Nokia
Dec 8th
Dec 5th
Nokia in 2010
This week Nokia held its annual Capital Markets Day (which addresses financial investors), and presented its vision of the upcoming year. The according press release contains the highlights. Financially, it seems that Nokia expects lower prices per unit while maintaining its market share in an overall growing market (+10%). Furthermore, Nokia aims at a higher margin, somewhere between 12 and...
Dec 5th
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Starting at Nokia
Monday will be my first working day! And I am quite thrilled about it. Also because my work place will be at the Nokia House in Espoo. The surroundings there are just stunning. Unfortunately the weather forecast predicts rather cold temperatures, so I won’t be coming by boat though :-)
Dec 3rd
The Cluetrain Manifesto is 10 years old
…and some of its 95 theses about the impact of the Internet for markets and enterprises are more relevant, telling, inspiring and powerful than ever before. To be honest, I only recently read through all of them for the first time, and for me it was quite astounding that these seminal theses have been written already over 10 years ago, that was long before the actual emergence of the...
Dec 1st