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Saturday, January 31, 2009

And You Think a Database Cannot Harm You?

Really? Read this short piece about American Express data mining practices. Then call me some time to talk about data mining and predictive modeling practices in the corporate health care (payor) environment.


Friday, February 22, 2008

Message to Mars

True enough, below is the picture equivalent of the binary message humans have sent into deep space as our form of intelligent communication. Now that the chuckle is over, see if you can tell just why it is a deceptively intelligent communication pattern after all: