Combination of in-Memory R and SAP HANA: Complex Analytics at Speed of Tought

Combination of in-Memory R and SAP HANA: Complex Analytics at Speed of Tought
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  “..R combined with SAP’s in-memory platform technology called HANA, R offers the potential to take the in-memory analytics to a whole new level.  Imagine performing advanced statistical analysis such as decision tree, game-theory, linear and multiple regressions and much more inside SAP HANA on millions of rows and turning around with critical business insights at the speed of thought. This is possible now with R and HANA.  This combination has the potential to completely…

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Algorithms and Sex Appeal: Could algorithms work for Sex Appeal? Can you look more sexy if you know some Mathematics?

Algorithms and Sex Appeal: Could algorithms work for Sex Appeal? Can you look more sexy if you know some Mathematics?
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From Wikipedia: an algorithm is an effective method expressed as a finite list of well-defined instructions for calculating a function. Algorithms are used for calculation, data processing, and automated reasoning. In simple words an algorithm is a step-by-step procedure for calculations. Now let’s analyze OkCupid.com it is a famous web site. On 2-Feb-2011 Match.com had acquired OkCupid for $50 million in cash. Many users expressed distress, worrying that they would now have to pay for…

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How can a $35 book go upto $23,698,655.93 (plus $3.99 shipping) at AMAZON? Real Story !

How can a $35 book go upto $23,698,655.93 (plus $3.99 shipping) at AMAZON? Real Story !
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After a few days From http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358  Michael Eisen’ Blog: “….But two questions remained. Why were they doing this, and how long would it go on before they noticed? As I amusedly watched the price rise every day, I learned that Amazon retailers are increasingly using algorithmic pricing (something Amazon itself does on a large scale), with a number of companies offering pricing algorithms/services to retailers. Both profnath and bordeebook were clearly using automatic pricing –…

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What is HANA? High Performance Analytic Appliance from SAP.

What is HANA? High Performance Analytic Appliance from SAP.
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Here is two important presentations that would make it clear for novice or advanced colleagues. What is SAP HANA? It is a real mile stone in “in-memory computing“. Introduction to HANA in-memory from SAP It is important to understand also CEP Complex Event Processing because it will make our life easier in realizing where we are headed for future application landscape from SAP. Complex Event Prosessing   View more presentations from ugur candan

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