VirgoLab

GroupLens is a research lab in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. We conduct research in several areas, including: * recommender systems * online communities * mobile and ubiquitious technologies * digital libraries * local geographic information systems

Slope One is a family of algorithms used for Collaborative filtering introduced in Slope One Predictors for Online Rating-Based Collaborative Filtering by Daniel Lemire and Anna Maclachlan. Arguably, it is the simplest form of non-trivial item-based collaborative filtering based on ratings

CRISP = Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining

You really don't understand a concept until you know what it's made of. The taxonomy of marketing (filled with a bazillion tactics) is murky at best. The tactics are so numerous, expensive and sometimes emotional that we easily focus on the urgent instead of the important. Perhaps we could try a different approach:

How Many of Us Find Our True Talent?

This is a good introductory article that explains how to adapt game engines visualization to business analytics in mobile devices.

Many Eyes is an IBM site with a goal of making data visualization algorithms and data sets widely available. It is a fantastic place to spend a few hours.

It is important to understand how the human brain functions in the area attention, at the cognitive and neuronal levels, so we can attempt to replicate these functions in any decision support and business analytics system.

ACM SPecial Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining