http://crystaliz.com/blog Structured Data Blog Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:42:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Scale, Speed, Flexibility, and Accuracy -- some thoughts on the way to organize analytics groups Introduction If you are the manager of an analysis group with a number of analysts who work on periodic and ad-hoc analysis tasks ranging from data compilation to statistical analysis to data mining, your organization is ... http://crystaliz.com/blog/2009/02/07/scale-speed-flexibility-and-accuracy-the-way-to-organize-analytics/ OK, it is time to start creating a plan for releasing DataDig -- a data search engine. First step is to create a photo album of screen shots of what could be done with DataDig -- in data research, in shopping: two applications that illustrate the generality of DataDig's engine. ... http://crystaliz.com/blog/2007/09/21/genre-incubates/ Around 1997, when we were right in the middle of developing a distributed, peer-to-peer collaboration system at Crystaliz, Inc., I was intrigued about how search engines were taking off on the Web. There was Lycos and AltaVista and Excite. One heard about two students at Stanford who were beginning to ... http://crystaliz.com/blog/2005/08/02/genre-the-beginning/