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New Book Review: "Revenue and the CMO"

New book review for Revenue and the CMO: How Marketing Will Impact Revenue Through Big Data & Social Selling, by Glenn Gow, Crimson Marketing, 2013: Copy provided by publicist Crystal Ponti. This book is all about how the Chief Marketing Officer, and those with similar roles, can bridge the gap

No Fluff Just Stuff 2013 Day 3:Simulation Testing with Simulant

Simulation Testing with Simulant (Stuart Halloway) November 10, 2013: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM From the conference materials: Simulation allows a rigorous, scalable, and reproducible approach to testing. The separation of concerns, and the use of a versioned, time-aware database, give simulation great power. This talk will introduce simulation

Pro Bono: IEEE Chicago Section Statistician - Part 2

This past month, I submitted a first post in a series that discusses some of my pro bono contributions as Statistician for the IEEE Chicago Section. As stated in that post, my goals are to work with the Membership Development Chair to meet his immediate needs, as well as explore

New Book Review: "R Graphics Cookbook"

New book review for R Graphics Cookbook, by Winston Chang, O'Reilly, 2012: This book is the third that I have recently used to get up to speed on the R language and environment. The other two texts include "R in a Nutshell" and "R in

New Book Review: "Seven Databases in Seven Weeks"

New book review for Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement, by Eric Redmond and Jim Wilson, Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2012: Over the past couple years, I have read considerably about non-traditional database products, whether they be categorized as NoSQL or NewSQL, especially the

Pro Bono: IEEE Chicago Section Statistician - Part 1

Over three years have past since my last post here on my pro bono efforts outside of the workplace. My latest pro bono contributions over the last few months have been working as Statistician for the IEEE Chicago section. The Statistician role is new for the section, and works within

New Book Review: "R in Action"

New book review for R in Action: Data Analysis and Graphics with R, by Robert Kabacoff, Manning Publications, 2011: Quite a few texts on R have entered the marketplace over the last few years, so my decision to go with this text about a year ago was based on my

New Book Review: "Ethics of Big Data"

New book review for Ethics of Big Data: Balancing Risk and Innovation, by Kord Davis and Doug Patterson, O'Reilly, 2012: Copy provided by Amazon. A very much needed, extremely well written essay on what the authors call the "forcing function" of Big Data – a push to

Liquibase in the Enterprise: Part 5

A year has gone by since I last posted about Liquibase, an open source database change management tool that I exclaimed is "one of the best software development tools I have used in recent years" in my first post of the series. All of these posts continue to

Commercialized Open Source (Repost from January 2009)

One nontrivial area of decision making that is of increasing import in recent years involves the choice between open source and commercial products. If you have not yet noticed, a fair number of open source software products have been acquired by commercial firms, and much open source has the backing