AI + ML
Decision time for AI: Sometimes accuracy is not your friend
When intuition lets you down, you're stuck between ROC and a hard place
06 Jul 2018 11:09 | 25
Professor Mark Whitehorn is chair of analytics at Dundee University's School of Computing.
AI + ML
Has your machine really learned something? Snap quiz time
How to tell if your algo is getting it right
13 Apr 2018 09:02 | 11
Devops
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?
28 Mar 2018 08:32 | 38
Hello, wrong number
ML fails: Loyalty prediction? Not really. And bonus prediction? Oh dear
Unexpected consequences - or drawing the line at non-linear relationships
28 Nov 2017 09:07 | 42
AI + ML
Neural networks: Today, classifying flowers... tomorrow, Skynet maybe
Here's one I made earlier – now, over to you
27 Nov 2017 09:04 | 11
Hello, wrong number
Combinations? Permutations? Those words don't mean what you think they mean
Only joking. You are all very clever
18 Oct 2017 09:06 | 52
Hello, wrong number
What is the probability of being drunk at work and also being tested? Let's find out! Correctly
Show you're not n00b with these slick analytical skillz
04 Oct 2017 08:03 | 133
AI + ML
Numbers war: How Bayesian vs frequentist statistics influence AI
Not all figures are equal
22 Jun 2017 09:00 | 32
AI + ML
8 out of 10 cats fear statistics – AI doesn't have this problem
Use and abuse of figures
24 May 2017 11:01 | 56
AI + ML
Do the numbers, Einstein: AI is more than maths as some know it
Why logic is driving graph databases
17 Mar 2017 09:30 | 19
AI + ML
Hard numbers: The mathematical architectures of Artificial Intelligence
Is your machine learning?
02 Feb 2017 12:00 | 68
Databases
We ain't in 1996 anymore, Dorothy: SQL Server 2016 proves it
Enterprise engine? Check. Cloud database? TBC
18 Jul 2016 13:13 | 36
Software
Who you callin' stoopid? No excuses for biz intelligence's poor stats
Note to industry: Must try harder
02 May 2016 10:55 | 41
Personal Tech
Land Rover's return: Last orders and leather seats for Defender nerds
Blighty's Jeep – done in a thoroughly British way
25 May 2015 13:04 | 102
Data Pair – Part 1
Thank heavens for the silicon chip: A BRIEF history of data
You have a pair of bones in Africa to thank for Larry Ellison
21 Apr 2015 15:03 | 34
+Diagrams
Car hacker secrets revealed: Clutching up a tank engine in a classic motor
A man. A V12 lump. A beaut of a project
21 Dec 2014 10:00 | 13
Science
Beyond the genome: YOU'VE BEEN DECODED, again
Welcome to the world of the proteome
28 Nov 2014 10:32 | 51
Personal Tech
Hi-torque tank engines: EXTREME car hacking with The Register
Bentley found in a hedge gets WW2 lump insertion
26 Nov 2014 11:44 | 119
Science
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
20 Oct 2014 08:05 | 31
Big Data's Big 5
About to make a big bet? Don't crash out, cash in with the power of maths
From biz changes to Monte Carlo, probabilities of risk explained
29 May 2014 09:01 | 30
Big Data's Big 5
What can The Simpsons teach us about stats algorithms? Glad you asked...
No, not the Simpsons – Simpson's Paradox
28 May 2014 08:31 | 45
Big Data's Big 5
Big data hitting the fan? Nyquist-Shannon TOOL SAMPLE can save you
Lessons from information theorists brainboxes - in pictures
23 May 2014 09:04 | 8
Big Data's Big 5
Achtung! Use maths to smash the German tank problem – and your rival
Leaky data is a double agent in intelligence analysis
20 May 2014 09:01 | 57
Big Data's Big 5
How to catch a fraudster – using 'top cop' Benford and the power of maths
Nothing attracts 'unnatural' numbers like this smooth curve
14 May 2014 09:04 | 73
Databases
Tell me, professor, what is big data?
A whole different dimension, says data scientist Mark Whitehorn
12 Aug 2013 10:03 | 35
Deep dive
We gave SQL Server 2012 one year to prove itself: What happened?
The pros, the cons and the fail in Microsoft's package
28 May 2013 08:35 | 39
Comment
Hey, software snobs: Hardware love can set your code free
The two go hand in hand when scaling data-crunching systems
27 Feb 2013 15:25 | 19
Databases
Big Data versus small data: Unpicking the paradox
Can NoSQL and relational both be adaptable?
06 Feb 2013 13:38 | 23
Analysis
Big Data's big issue: Where are all the data scientists coming from?
This personnel gap isn't just a job-title change
02 Nov 2012 09:19 | 8
Storage
Big Data bites back: How to handle those unwieldy digits
When you can't just cram it into tables
27 Aug 2012 09:02 | 23
Review
Microsoft shakes SQL Server 2012's business end at big data
Still holding out for Hadoop
13 Mar 2012 10:29 | 1
Review
SQL Server 2008 - from semi-relational to sublime
Inside Microsoft's R2 preview
21 Nov 2009 00:57 | 19
Databases
Teradata unveils SSD Blurr appliance
Feels need for speed
19 Oct 2009 23:23 | 1
Databases
What your database needs is a good thermometer
Data blows hot and cold
14 Sep 2009 03:16 | 11
Databases
In the spin of SSDs on database servers
The future is static
24 Aug 2009 15:02 | 1
USA '08
Sarah Palin's words get data mined
Whoah, there's data here? Business analysis gets to work on VP transcripts
31 Oct 2008 12:19 | 62
D'oh!
Beware the innocent systems 'health check'
Cough, please
08 Sep 2008 16:02 | 25
Review
SQL Server 2008 moves on, wants to stay friends
It’s not you, it’s the BI and database engine
07 Aug 2008 15:02 | 27
D'oh!
Lateral thought saves sizzling server
Game, set and crash
29 Jul 2008 17:02 | 65
D'oh!
What I learned from a dumb terminal
Economy of language meets an excess of context
20 Jun 2008 07:02 | 47
Project Watch: Microsoft 2008
Windows experiment meets the bottom line
Resist anything but temptation
02 Jun 2008 12:02 | 6
Project Watch: Microsoft 2008
Virtual Earth puts human face on data
Lightweight programming, minus Google
16 May 2008 05:02 | 2
Project Watch: Microsoft 2008
Frustration and joy - Microsoft's CTP in action
Thank God for file streaming
02 May 2008 11:02 | 15
Project Watch: Microsoft 2008
Windows hardware challenge draws on resources
Things get heavy
19 Mar 2008 06:02 | 9
Project Watch: Microsoft 2008
Microsoft measures up
A meter is a meter is a meter. Not
26 Feb 2008 11:02 | 6
Project Watch: Microsoft 2008
Back to basics for SQL Server 2008
Hand feeding
14 Feb 2008 14:26 | 10
Project Watch: Microsoft 2008
Experience overcomes Microsoft's broken promises
People-unready database ready
29 Jan 2008 00:31 | 25
Channel
The 'blem wit' error messages
Things get terse
28 Jan 2008 19:42 | 64
Project Watch: Microsoft 2008
Inside the Windows 2008 stack experience
Laughter, tears, upgrades
24 Jan 2008 19:56 | 23
Update
'Draconian' Microsoft promises to make Office work again
Busting through SP3
05 Jan 2008 05:43 | 57
Myths and legends
Why Borland trashed its spreadsheet
Finds hidden meaning
19 Dec 2007 07:52 | 32
Channel
Mind your languages with Microsoft LINQ
Data-access sticking plaster?
10 Dec 2007 01:02 | 27
Comment
Running queries on the HMRC database fiasco
Dis-information systems management
25 Nov 2007 08:02 | 87
Myths and legends
Oracle 'cheated' in TPC benchmarks
Denies wrong doing
12 Nov 2007 00:02 | 12
Software
Hands on with MDX
Dimension and measures (yes, but can it handle cubic furlongs?)
23 Oct 2007 20:51 | 6
Software
MDX: Why it will matter to application developers
That's Multi-Dimensional eXpressions to you, guv
22 Oct 2007 08:02 | 3
Software
Evolutionary vs. traditional database design
DBA fights back
06 Aug 2007 09:05 | 8
Software
Oracle 11g’s new toys
It may be Oracle, but it is shiny
13 Jul 2007 07:02 | 6
Software
Remember the ‘Service’ in SOA
But what if firms don't know what 'service' means?
09 Jul 2007 12:28 | 2
Software
The great migration debate: Essbase to Analysis Services
Moving Cubes
08 Jun 2007 12:56 |
