Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

I’m just sitting in my hotel room in Galway, listening to the Galway Races going on down the road and working through an online demo of Oracle’s new Sales Prospector application. It’s actually quite an interesting application of Oracle’s in-database data mining technology, something that’s relevant to me as I’m putting together a section on [...]

Curt Monash has been talking about text mining a lot this week, he also notes that, from a text point of view, that the four preeminent database vendors (data store not query tool) are Oracle, Microsoft, Teradata and Netezza, this seems to reflect my experiences of what is going on in the BI space as [...]

I managed to miss Mark Rittman’s recent keynote addresses in two locations this week, but I did take a look at the slide deck and the blog post. Mark is making five very sound points on the Oracle BI stack. As most regular readers of this blog might expect, I am probably more data driven [...]

Data miners at Sussex police have noticed a correlation between violent incidents and a full moon and based on this fact deploy more police on the streets of Brighton at times of peak lunar brightness. Well it makes a change from noticing that nappies (diapers) and beer goes together. Talking of Brighton, Jon Mead writes [...]

Yesterday I ungraciously forgot to mention Nuno Souto’s blog piece from January where he was talking about just the same sort of issues with access to massive databases. Please go and read Noons’ work, it is well worth it. I mentioned two challenges yesterday, putting the data into the database and finding it again. Systems [...]