Decision time for AI: Sometimes accuracy is not your friend
When intuition lets you down, you're stuck between ROC and a hard place
AI + ML06 Jul 2018 | 25
Professor Mark Whitehorn is chair of analytics at Dundee University's School of Computing.
Has your machine really learned something? Snap quiz time
How to tell if your algo is getting it right
AI + ML13 Apr 2018 | 11
Take the dashboard too literally and your brains might end up all over it
Ooo, pretty colours. But what if the data or interpretation sucks?
Devops28 Mar 2018 | 38
ML fails: Loyalty prediction? Not really. And bonus prediction? Oh dear
Hello, wrong number Unexpected consequences - or drawing the line at non-linear relationships
AI + ML28 Nov 2017 | 42
Neural networks: Today, classifying flowers... tomorrow, Skynet maybe
Here's one I made earlier – now, over to you
AI + ML27 Nov 2017 | 11
Combinations? Permutations? Those words don't mean what you think they mean
Hello, wrong number Only joking. You are all very clever
AI + ML18 Oct 2017 | 52
What is the probability of being drunk at work and also being tested? Let's find out! Correctly
Hello, wrong number Show you're not n00b with these slick analytical skillz
AI + ML04 Oct 2017 | 133
Numbers war: How Bayesian vs frequentist statistics influence AI
Not all figures are equal
AI + ML22 Jun 2017 | 32
8 out of 10 cats fear statistics – AI doesn't have this problem
Use and abuse of figures
AI + ML24 May 2017 | 56
Do the numbers, Einstein: AI is more than maths as some know it
Why logic is driving graph databases
AI + ML17 Mar 2017 | 19
Hard numbers: The mathematical architectures of Artificial Intelligence
Is your machine learning?
AI + ML02 Feb 2017 | 68
We ain't in 1996 anymore, Dorothy: SQL Server 2016 proves it
Enterprise engine? Check. Cloud database? TBC
Databases18 Jul 2016 | 36
Who you callin' stoopid? No excuses for biz intelligence's poor stats
Note to industry: Must try harder
Software02 May 2016 | 41
Land Rover's return: Last orders and leather seats for Defender nerds
Blighty's Jeep – done in a thoroughly British way
Personal Tech25 May 2015 | 102
Thank heavens for the silicon chip: A BRIEF history of data
Data Pair – Part 1 You have a pair of bones in Africa to thank for Larry Ellison
On-Prem21 Apr 2015 | 34
Car hacker secrets revealed: Clutching up a tank engine in a classic motor
+Diagrams A man. A V12 lump. A beaut of a project
Security21 Dec 2014 | 13
Beyond the genome: YOU'VE BEEN DECODED, again
Welcome to the world of the proteome
Science28 Nov 2014 | 51
Hi-torque tank engines: EXTREME car hacking with The Register
Bentley found in a hedge gets WW2 lump insertion
Personal Tech26 Nov 2014 | 119
You can crunch it all you like, but the answer is NOT always in the data
Hear that, 'data journalists'? Our analytics prof holds forth
Science20 Oct 2014 | 31
About to make a big bet? Don't crash out, cash in with the power of maths
Big Data's Big 5 From biz changes to Monte Carlo, probabilities of risk explained
On-Prem29 May 2014 | 30
What can The Simpsons teach us about stats algorithms? Glad you asked...
Big Data's Big 5 No, not the Simpsons – Simpson's Paradox
Software28 May 2014 | 45
Big data hitting the fan? Nyquist-Shannon TOOL SAMPLE can save you
Big Data's Big 5 Lessons from information theorists brainboxes - in pictures
On-Prem23 May 2014 | 8
Achtung! Use maths to smash the German tank problem – and your rival
Big Data's Big 5 Leaky data is a double agent in intelligence analysis
Software20 May 2014 | 57
How to catch a fraudster – using 'top cop' Benford and the power of maths
Big Data's Big 5 Nothing attracts 'unnatural' numbers like this smooth curve
On-Prem14 May 2014 | 73
Tell me, professor, what is big data?
A whole different dimension, says data scientist Mark Whitehorn
Databases12 Aug 2013 | 35
We gave SQL Server 2012 one year to prove itself: What happened?
Deep dive The pros, the cons and the fail in Microsoft's package
Software28 May 2013 | 39
Hey, software snobs: Hardware love can set your code free
Comment The two go hand in hand when scaling data-crunching systems
On-Prem27 Feb 2013 | 19
Big Data versus small data: Unpicking the paradox
Can NoSQL and relational both be adaptable?
Databases06 Feb 2013 | 23
Big Data's big issue: Where are all the data scientists coming from?
Analysis This personnel gap isn't just a job-title change
On-Prem02 Nov 2012 | 8
Big Data bites back: How to handle those unwieldy digits
When you can't just cram it into tables
Storage27 Aug 2012 | 23
Microsoft shakes SQL Server 2012's business end at big data
Review Still holding out for Hadoop
Software13 Mar 2012 | 1
SQL Server 2008 - from semi-relational to sublime
Review Inside Microsoft's R2 preview
Databases21 Nov 2009 | 19
Teradata unveils SSD Blurr appliance
Feels need for speed
Databases19 Oct 2009 | 1
What your database needs is a good thermometer
Data blows hot and cold
Databases14 Sep 2009 | 11
In the spin of SSDs on database servers
The future is static
Databases24 Aug 2009 | 1
Sarah Palin's words get data mined
USA '08 Whoah, there's data here? Business analysis gets to work on VP transcripts
Bootnotes31 Oct 2008 | 62
Beware the innocent systems 'health check'
D'oh! Cough, please
Software08 Sep 2008 | 25
SQL Server 2008 moves on, wants to stay friends
Review It’s not you, it’s the BI and database engine
OSes07 Aug 2008 | 27
Lateral thought saves sizzling server
D'oh! Game, set and crash
Systems29 Jul 2008 | 65
What I learned from a dumb terminal
D'oh! Economy of language meets an excess of context
Software20 Jun 2008 | 47
Windows experiment meets the bottom line
Project Watch: Microsoft 2008 Resist anything but temptation
Channel02 Jun 2008 | 6
Virtual Earth puts human face on data
Project Watch: Microsoft 2008 Lightweight programming, minus Google
Channel16 May 2008 | 2
Frustration and joy - Microsoft's CTP in action
Project Watch: Microsoft 2008 Thank God for file streaming
OSes02 May 2008 | 15
Windows hardware challenge draws on resources
Project Watch: Microsoft 2008 Things get heavy
OSes19 Mar 2008 | 9
Microsoft measures up
Project Watch: Microsoft 2008 A meter is a meter is a meter. Not
Channel26 Feb 2008 | 6
Back to basics for SQL Server 2008
Project Watch: Microsoft 2008 Hand feeding
Channel14 Feb 2008 | 10
Experience overcomes Microsoft's broken promises
Project Watch: Microsoft 2008 People-unready database ready
Channel29 Jan 2008 | 25
The 'blem wit' error messages
Things get terse
Channel28 Jan 2008 | 64
Inside the Windows 2008 stack experience
Project Watch: Microsoft 2008 Laughter, tears, upgrades
Channel24 Jan 2008 | 23
'Draconian' Microsoft promises to make Office work again
Update Busting through SP3
Channel05 Jan 2008 | 57
Why Borland trashed its spreadsheet
Myths and legends Finds hidden meaning
Channel19 Dec 2007 | 32
Mind your languages with Microsoft LINQ
Data-access sticking plaster?
Channel10 Dec 2007 | 27
Running queries on the HMRC database fiasco
Comment Dis-information systems management
Channel25 Nov 2007 | 87
Oracle 'cheated' in TPC benchmarks
Myths and legends Denies wrong doing
Channel12 Nov 2007 | 12
Hands on with MDX
Dimension and measures (yes, but can it handle cubic furlongs?)
Software23 Oct 2007 | 6
MDX: Why it will matter to application developers
That's Multi-Dimensional eXpressions to you, guv
Software22 Oct 2007 | 3
Evolutionary vs. traditional database design
DBA fights back
Software06 Aug 2007 | 8
Oracle 11g’s new toys
It may be Oracle, but it is shiny
Software13 Jul 2007 | 6
Remember the ‘Service’ in SOA
But what if firms don't know what 'service' means?
Software09 Jul 2007 | 2
The great migration debate: Essbase to Analysis Services
Moving Cubes
Software08 Jun 2007 |
Biting the hand that feeds IT
