Sponsoring and Presenting at SQL Saturday 220 Atlanta GA May 18
MarkTab Inc. is a sponsor for SQL Saturday 220, Atlanta, GA (May 18), and will be giving away five passes to the three-day Experience Data Mining training on September 10-12, 2013. I will also be...
View ArticlePresenting a Best Practices Framework for Data Mining June 2013
I copresented (with Artus Krohn-Grimberghe) a session called “A Best Practices Framework for Data Mining” for the June 13, 2013 PASS Virtual Business Analytics Group. This talk marks my third for this...
View ArticleSponsoring and Presenting at SQL Saturday 226 South Florida June 29
I am happy to be a sponsor (via MarkTab Inc) and presenter at SQL Saturday 226 South Florida. I have been to this event in the past, and many of my presenter friends will also be at this excellent...
View ArticlePresenting at Silicon Valley Code Camp October 5-6
I am honored to be speaking on the PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) track at this year’s Silicon Valley Code Camp (in Los Altos Hills, CA). Annually, this user event is (currently) the...
View ArticlePresenting at SQL Saturday Charlotte October 19
I will be speaking at the second Charlotte BI Edition SQL Saturday (in Charlotte, NC) on October 19. I will be at the PASS Summit as a volunteer (previous to the SQL Saturday), but will be talking at...
View ArticleIs SPSS better than SQL Server Data Mining?
I was recently asked this question by someone who works for Microsoft, and who was sincerely trying to understand the differences. I first used SPSS in the early 1990s on the mainframe, just after I...
View ArticleFree eBooks from Microsoft
Microsoft Program Manager Eric Ligman has been posting lists of free eBooks from his blog. I have not mentioned these books in past blog postings. So, this posting is a catch-up for the three lists...
View ArticleHow does SAS performance compare with Julia?
I have been a SAS programmer and architect for years: I did my first professional work in the 1990s. I also have made friends among people who focus on SAS. I had mentioned in a SAS Consultants...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure Machine Learning
Yesterday, Microsoft publicly announced a new technology for machine learning called Microsoft Azure Machine Learning. This cloud-based technology promises ease in building data-driven analytics...
View ArticleGet started with Azure Machine Learning
Today, Microsoft is announcing and offering general availability for Azure Machine Learning. Many of the features are listed at http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/machine-learning/ With this...
View ArticleData Science Guide for PASS Summit 2014
PASS Summit is a paid conference in Seattle, WA from November 5 to 7, 2014 (some preconference sessions precede the conference on November 3 and 4, and have an additional charge). The purpose of this...
View ArticlePurchase Review of Predictive Analytics with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning
Predictive Analytics with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning is authored by Roger Barga, Valentine (Val) Fontama, and Wee Hyong Tok. This post provides a review to inform a purchase decision for this...
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