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Data Artisan Smith or Scientist
Over the past few months, a debate has been proceeding on whether or not a new discipline, a new career path, is emerging from the tsunami of data bearing down on us. The need for a new type of Renaissance [Wo]Man to deal with the Big Data onslaught. more »
Technology for the OSS DSS Study Guide
06/15/10 | by Joseph A. di Paolantonio ![[mail]](img/envelope.gif)
| Categories: Business, Computers and Internet, Open Source, software, Business Intelligence, OSS DSS Study Guide
| Categories: Business, Computers and Internet, Open Source, software, Business Intelligence, OSS DSS Study Guide 'Tis been longer than intended, but we finally have the technology, time and resources to continue with our Open Source Solutions Decision Support System Study Guide (OSS DSS SG). This post gives a descriptions of the capabilities we want and the OSS projects we'll use. more »
OSS DSS Formalization
04/28/10 | by Joseph A. di Paolantonio | Categories: Business, Computers and Internet, Open Source, software, technology, Business Intelligence, OSS DSS Study Guide
| Categories: Business, Computers and Internet, Open Source, software, technology, Business Intelligence, OSS DSS Study Guide The next step in our open source solutions (OSS) for decision support systems (DSS) study guide (SG), according to the syllabus, is to make our first decision: a formal definition of "Decision Support System" and listing the technologies that will contri… more »
R the next Big Thing or Not
04/20/10 | by Joseph A. di Paolantonio | Categories: Computers and Internet, Predictions, OSS DSS Study Guide
| Categories: Computers and Internet, Predictions, OSS DSS Study Guide This is part of our open source solutions decision support system study guide, but a bit off the timeline to respond to two recent tempests in a tweet-pot, pitting R against SAS. more »
OSS DSS Studies Introduction
This Introduction to our Open Source Solutions Decision Support Study Guide continues the discussion of the processes and technologies that constitute a DSS. more »
Syllabus for OSS DSS Studies
03/23/10 | by Joseph A. di Paolantonio | Categories: Open Source, Business Intelligence, OSS DSS Study Guide
| Categories: Open Source, Business Intelligence, OSS DSS Study Guide As promised, here's the syllabus for our study guide to decision support systems using open source solutions. We'll start with a first draft on 2010-03-23, and update and change based on ideas, comments and lessons learned. So, please comment. :) The… more »
Questions and Commonality
03/19/10 | by Joseph A. di Paolantonio | Categories: books, Open Source, Business Intelligence, Predictions, OSS DSS Study Guide
| Categories: books, Open Source, Business Intelligence, Predictions, OSS DSS Study Guide In this post, the second in a series of posts to form an open source solutions decision support system study guide, we begin to explore the questions asked in the first post, and try to define the elements required for a modern DSS. more »
First DSS Study Guide
03/15/10 | by Joseph A. di Paolantonio | Categories: Business Intelligence, Predictions, OSS DSS Study Guide
| Categories: Business Intelligence, Predictions, OSS DSS Study Guide Someone sitting in their study, looking at their books, journals, piles of scholarly periodicals and files of correspondence with learned colleagues probably didn't think that they were looking at their decision support system, but they were.
Someone… more »
Modeling and Predictives
Here's a personal perspective and a bit of a personal history regarding mathematical modeling and predictives, from the 1970s to the needs of 2010 and beyond. more »
An Open Source Childrens Story
Twittering on a rainy Friday afternoon leads to a Hero's Quest in IT Land for a band of Open Source characters and maybe an OSCON Keynote. more »
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