Nathan Segal

Drilling Down With A Data Mining Pioneer

Dr. Usama Fayyad is a data mining pioneer who began working in the field in 1989. He got his start at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, compiling data...

Tools To Tame The Data Deluge

Data is omnipresent. Everywhere we go, we encounter it, in our business transactions, subscription lists, email, etc. To put the growth of data in perspective, every 18 months...

Keep Bad Email Addresses From Marring Your Database

E-Commerce can be a tricky business, especially if your site sells a popular downloadable software product that requires registration before you can download it. Often, people enter...

Filtering Spam with Blocklists

For business professionals, spam is a huge problem that causes clogged in-boxes and wastes many hours of productive time to sort through it. Once you have an...

Bidding On Bandwidth To Control Costs

When dealing with streaming media, allocating and purchasing bandwidth is an important issue, as is cost. Many companies are locked into long-term, fixed-price contracts for bandwidth, which...

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