Past Articles By Seth Grimes
Infobright Boosts Open Source Data Warehousing
MySQL-based analytical DBMS joins MonetDB and LucidDB among open-source, column-store data warehousing options. Sun invests in newly competitive vendor.
What BI Practitioners Can Learn From Operations Research
Growing interest in analytics and the trend toward automated decision making will lead the business intelligence crowd toward the mix of mathematical and statistical techniques used by operations researchers.
Q&A: IBM's Aaron Brown on Text Analytics for Legal Compliance
The burden of legal e-discovery mandates is driving demand for "knowledge discovery" technologies. The program director of IBM's Content Discovery and Search unit discussed the use of text analytics in legal work and other emerging applications.
Breakthrough Analysis: Make Your Data Tell a Story
Stories frame facts and organize information to bring you to a conclusion; the outcome can be a new way of seeing problems and deciding how to act.
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Lexalytics' ExecDex, or the PR Folks Know Best
A press release from Lexalytics touts ExecDex, a Web site that features a "business-leader ranking index." Now Lexalytics makes an interesting sentiment-analysis engine, but I thought ExecDex should have been more fully developed before release to the likes of me. It seems Lexalytics CEO Jeff Catlin agreed, but the two of us couldn't have been more wrong. I think we both received a lesson in looking at tech applications through others' eyes.
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10.10.2008
The Semantic Web: Perhaps Not So "On the Cusp"
The Semantic Web was conceptualized almost a decade ago, but despite progress on protocols and publishing tools, it remains far from realization. Yes, semantics are important in boosting information findability and usefulness, but these SW examples — I cited another in a year-ago blog article — only emphasize the gap between SW boosterism and Web reality.
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10. 8.2008
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Seth Grimes is an
analytics strategist with Washington DC based Alta Plana
Corporation. He consults on data management and analysis systems. 
