Information - Man(agement) :: Data Mining :: Psychology :: Future

Naked we are
when we come to this world
A first photo is up
on name.blogger dot hot

Smart ass posts on
hack-forum dot gully dot net
is it wrong o_^? to express
your political bet?

Stupid groups joined on facebook
or on AbmahnVZ
Awkward feeling
explaining the profiles to Matt

Once in business
you hope,
work and think like a tank
Feet make steps,
steps form trails

…

Every doubleclick noted,
matched and sorted and stored
Yeah! Those harddisks indeed
never ever get bored!

Naked we are
yet again, once again
when we set off to go
that untraceable track

The last picture is taken
for forensics and stuff
Information can’t ever
be really ENOUGH!

What lasts is an image
yet blurry and gray
that gets sharper and flashy
once the heir gets the key

Google’s personal_healthcare_gmail_brainwave_ID
gets an upgrade to version Generation_2.b

(c) or something by Iwan Uswak

· Which new class was added in Diablo II: Lord of Destruction?

· Which unit belongs to the Protoss from StarCraft?

· King Terenas was the ruler of which kingdom in Warcraft?

· In what patch was the Voice Chat feature added to World of Warcraft?

· Which of the following games does NOT use the Battle.net service?

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I’m just a decent person trying to do some research with google almighty search and they have to confront me with such terrifying messages. No virus found on my system!

Wanna terrify your relatives?

lure them to	http://www.google.com/sorry/
don’t try	http://www.google.com/story/
or	http://www.google.com/scary/
or	http://www.google.com/horror/

english version of google sorry

I encourage my readers to make a screenshot of google sorry in their language, blog about it and send me a trackback or comment or whatever …

More then 2 weeks have passed since the beginning of the Data Mining Cup 2007 and I know you guys are pretty far by now. I guess many of you already assembled dozens of prediction rules and models and are finetuning their systems.
But as I know myself, we all tend to draw conclusions much too fast. Let’s see if we have spend enough time on understanding and restructuring the data.

This is the very first statistic you should look at. The frequency of customer respondings on coupon A or B or Not responding at all. Remember from the Scenario, that each person of the 50k recieved coupon A and B via mail and here we have the respondings:

After performing some simple grouping operations on the customers you can see groups with significantly different frequencies.

Shouldn’t we treat them different?
Next time more on simple and not so simple grouping.

Wow! Vistaprint did a damn good job. I ordered my Premium Business Cards on April 17th and got them today. Everything looks fine. Thick high-quality paper (265 g/m² or something like that) and luminous colours. Now I feel realy good about having that banner up there ^^

I have one hint for you. Don’t choose the more expensive 1 week delivery option.
I’ve choosen the cheaper standard 2 weeks delivery and got them in one week anyway

Vistaprint has got a very easy to understand and user friendly website and they have got great system to upload your own images for higher customization.

But?: Vistaprint growth, Something to be carefull about

Does anybody have a different experience with their service?