June 2011
5 posts
“I’m glad that California children now have the right to have their innocent...”
– Violent video games? The Founders probably approved! - ComPost - The Washington Post
“Michele Bachmann, when she turns her head toward the cameras and brandishes her...”
– Michele Bachmann’s Holy War | Rolling Stone Politics
“Why do regular customers come in three times or more a month?” DeWitt...”
– ‘Breastaurants’ Ring Up Big Profits
It's a rat →
May 2011
3 posts
“I used to prepare for traveling. Now, I jump on planes, trains and automobiles...”
– Outlook’s Third Annual Spring Cleaning List: Smartphones - The Washington Post
Florida Senate fails basic biology, accidentally... →
No sex, we are in Texas!
April 2011
3 posts
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Blue Hat Group →
“Wie die Polizeidirektion Rotenburg bekannt gab, wurde sie Anfang des Monats von...”
– Trauriger Rekord: 3.800 Viren auf PC, Konto leer - News - CHIP Online
Ich bin sprachlos.
March 2011
8 posts
“In 2011, we are seeing data warehouse platforms evolve from an information store...”
– Gartner: Data warehousing approaching significant inflection point
“There is a little bit of an education that comes along with shopping the store,”...”
– Where Wal-Mart Failed, Aldi Succeeds - NYTimes.com
World map of The Penis Size Worldwide (country) by... →
“But winner Lee Herman took a clever alternative approach. He built four...”
– Ensemble Models for Better Predictions | Accelrys | Blog
“Uplift modelling is a way of predicting the difference that an action makes to...”
– The Scientific Marketer: Uplift Modelling FAQ
“This apparent lack of interest raises serious questions about IBM’s future plans...”
– Does IBM care for CPLEX at all? « Sebastian Pokutta’s Blog
February 2011
8 posts
“This, more than ebooks, more than customer loyalties and more than downward...”
– Scenes From A Borders Liquidation Sale - The Consumerist
“At the risk of stating the obvious, those disastrous wars and the...”
– In Defense of Mockery : Pharyngula
“What’s funny about this to me is that the theory is employed in such a serious...”
– 30 Rock Popularizes the Uncanny Valley — The Popular Uncanny — Michael Arnzen
Retro Camera App for ihone →
Hipstamatic Landscape →
January 2011
3 posts
“And so, I hereby pledge that, beginning on Feb. 1, 2011, I will not mention...”
– I’m declaring February a Palin-free month. Join me!
“Jobs, however, did offer a temporary fix to iPhone users whose alarms do not...”
– Apple Cancels Press Conference on iPhone Alarm Glitch after Steve Jobs Oversleeps - Yahoo! News
December 2010
7 posts
“The fundamental measure that we use for a circle is the radius – and there are a...”
– π really is wrong! | Good Math, Bad Math
Data Mining Map →
Explains Data Mining process, methods and their relations in one graphs.
“Well. My dead cat Hettie is also a “certified professional member” of the AANC....”
– What’s wrong with Dr Gillian McKeith PhD? – Bad Science
This is old, but good for a real hard laugh.
1 tag
Related Tables in PowerPivot
Here is an important note to self: if you use related table in PowerPivot, make sure you use the key from the satellite table, not the one from the facts. Even better, hide the key column in the facts to prevent yourself from spending a lot of time with wrong calculations!
Here is an example of what I mean
“Those who demand that the U.S. Government take people’s lives with no...”
– WikiLeaks reveals more than just government secrets - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
November 2010
10 posts
KKO_0801 →
Add in Excel and PowerPoint new data... →
Trying out now… but it thinks that Office 2010 is too old, so hold your horses…
Refuse Report Requests. Only Answer Business... →
This may come as a kind of eye opener for BI people. Viva la revolution!
“I do a lot of work for seminary students. I like seminary students. They seem so...”
– The Shadow Scholar - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
KNIME | Konstanz Information Miner →
Another cool free-to-use data mining tool; seems to be an alternative to RapidMiner.
Data normalization par excellence–the gift of... →
How Good Management Can Produce Bad Data | Smart... →
Square Game →
“There’s going to be a lot of pain and unpleasantness over the next few years for...”
– PASS Summit Day 2 « Chris Webb’s BI Blog
Microsoft is going to kill SSAS or at least reduces it to a Zombie product lingering in the shadows of BISM and PowerPivot, the new shiny gadgets everyone is working on at MS. There is a time horizon of at least a year where businesses will...
XMind - Mind Mapping and Storming →
Neat tool for designing mind maps. There is a lot functionality for free, and more so for a decent license fee (49$ per year and seat).
October 2010
11 posts
“With this announcement, the SQL Server team has released an updated version of...”
– Announcing an updated version of PowerPivot for Excel - SQL Server Team Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
Dropbox - Home - Online backup, file sync and... →
2 Gig of memory in the cloud… for free. This is nice for sharing files, and keeping some stuff available when you are travelling. It has a nice interface on Android phones as well.
Chandoo.org - Learn Microsoft Excel Online - Excel... →
Just to show that I don’t hate Excel for modelling: 169 pages of badass Ecel tipps.