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After years of graduate education and even more years of professional experience (with SAS and Microsoft), I still find data mining an awesome and challenging topic. I use this blog to share my best tips and achievements learned sometimes through great struggle. Today, I provide data mining advice to leading companies and industries in the United States and around the world. I share my journey and insights at leading conferences like SAS Global Forum, Microsoft TechEd, and Predictive Analytics World.
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Category Archives: Analysis Services
Comments on PASS Summit Friday Keynote
Today’s keynote was by computer science guru Dr. David DeWitt. I had heard that DeWitt was a good presenter, and found that to be true. He focused on Big Data, and specifically went through how Hadoop works (as contrasted with alternatives) along with … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis Services, Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Microsoft Business Intelligence
Tagged Hadoop, NoSQL, PASS
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Time Series Forecasting and Performance
A SQL Server expert asked me a question last February about time series (forecasting) and performance. I ask other experts all the time about questions I have, and I enjoy answering questions that people send me. I have not blogged about … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis Services, Query and Response, SQL Server Data Mining
Tagged SQL Server, time series
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Tableau Software “Data Mining” Visualizations
Tableau Software produces first-rate visualization software. They are among the many open-source and commercial visualization products (and services) listed by KDNuggets: http://www.kdnuggets.com/software/visualization.html. As blog readers remember from February 2011, I posted on DevExpress and their marketing of the phrase “data … Continue reading
MarkTab Reviews Data Mining Chapter
I was happy to receive my copy of Building Integrated Business Intelligence Solutions with SQL Server 2008 R2 & Office 2010 in the mail last weekend. The book is about using the entire Microsoft BI (Business Intelligence) stack to build enterprise-level … Continue reading
SQL Saturday 70 Columbia SC Post Event Wrap-Up
I had a good trip to Columbia, SC on March 19. At the event I presented on the topic “Enterprise Data Mining for SQL Server Professionals”, whose slides and demos are now online. Based on the free dataset called Contoso … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis Services, Integration Services, SQL Server Data Mining
Tagged enterprise, SQL Saturday, SQL Server
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Data Mining Implications of Gartner’s 2011 Projections
Industry analysis organization Gartner announced four major trends for the next few years. This blog post projects implications for data mining (in general). Prediction #1: “By 2013, 33 percent of BI functionality will be consumed via handheld devices.” From their … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis Services, Business Intelligence, Data Mining, SQL Server Data Mining
Tagged BISM, PowerPivot, SharePoint, Vertipaq
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Vertipaq, Analysis Services, and Data Mining
Rob Collie formerly worked for Microsoft, and now blogs at PowerPivotPro.com. His blog is included in my Recommended Blogs for 2011. Late last year, he posted his comments on Vertipaq and Analysis Services. I would expect my regular reading audience to … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis Services, SQL Server Data Mining
Tagged Denali, PowerPivot, SharePoint, Vertipaq
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