Tag: datamining

  • Mining business execs….

    So what criteria do you go for? I’ve been racking my brain over the last 24 hours (and I forgot my notebook which didn’t help). Going back to the eHarmony way of doing things. There’s a ton of spade work already done over many years before they ev…

  • Finding business partners the eHarmony way.

    So much for the quiet long weekend. I got into a fairly long Twitter conversation with Nichola Bates (@growsalesonline), Chris McCabe (@maxer08), Jackie McGonigle (@whatsonni), Lyra McKee (@LyraMcKee) and Mary McKenna (@MMaryMcKenna) about somethi…

  • The JFDI Chronicles – My little black book.

    I suppose everyone has “a book”, it might be a journal or a word document. It’s the place where everything goes into. For me I have an A4 sketch book, it’s coffee stained and a bit bashed around the edges, not great to look at it but it contains e…

  • Data, Data, Data: Why would Subway run out of my fave bread?

    I hope my doctor isn’t reading this….. My morning commute to work involves me passing a Subway store. As I have the Subway card (500 points and you get a free 6 inch sub, or ?50 for a sandwich) I’ll use it pretty regularly to get the points. My …

  • The Bootstrap Diaries – Part 1.

    There are just days when you have to go it alone. For those who don’t know I’m bootstrapping a company from scratch. I thought it might be a good idea to chip in some blog posts along the now that I can talk about some of these things. Since my la…

  • So you want a mortgage, so how much do you really spend?

    Though it’s not officially confirmed that this will happen, a number of the newspapers are reporting the fact that the FSA want to push through new checks for mortgage applications. The main one is that applicants will be “forced” to prove their s…

  • Cutting through the bull – when things just don’t add up.

    I have worked in IT for twenty one glorious years, never thought I could see the day. Programming languages come and go, fads, fashions, websites I’ve pretty much seen it all. There is one thing that has constantly cropped up in my profession, fak…

  • Twitter data mining, there’s one element missing.

    I’ve been umming and ahhing over this one for a week or so and the immediate answer just wasn’t in my field of vision. There’s lots of talk about data mining Twitter feeds as a use for company feedback. SAP already have something called the “senti…

  • Loyalty Card Data – Perhaps the true cloud battleground.

    In 2004 I worked on a project with a company called Rippledown Solutions, later their app became System42 then it got totally rebranded into Erudine. One of their demo pitches was loyalty card data and it’s something I’ve been fascinated with ever…