In "The Problem with Unstructured Data" (DMReview, 2003, http:// www.dmreview.com/issues/20030201/6287-1.html ) Robert Blumberg and Shaku Atre state: Merrill...
I share the same feeling as greg. For all you know even if the report does exist, there is a good chance that the number was arrived at based on a survey of...
I emailed the author of this article, and here's what he said: From: "Robert Blumberg" <rblumberg at att dot net> To: "'Greg Holmberg'" Subject: RE: The...
Hi Greg, I remember searching for this as well and wound up using the Gartner reference but never found a rigorous study supporting the claim. I assumed at...
To ALL, I, too, have quoted and used this figure of 80-85% of corporate info as being unstructured data. On a given number of clients (8), I was able to...
... Good finds on the history, Seth. And I agree with your point on the meaninglessness of the figure. I'm not sure I'd agree on structured vs. "unstructured"...
Folks, There was a claim like this made in the November 16, 1998 Merrill Lynch report on Enterprise Information Portals. The report is a famous one that kicked...
I found the 1998 M-L report... I think. It contains many references to "unstructured" info etc. and says "some estimates run as high as 80%." I'm going to blog...
Sorry, I didn't include the link to the report. It's http://emarkets.grm.hia.no/gem/Topic7/eip_ind.pdf . Seth ... -- Seth Grimes Alta Plana Corp, analytical...
When Predictive Analytics goes to Cloud: In an article published in the Communication of the ACM [1] in July 08, Brian Hayes, argues that the longstanding era...
I heard (can't recall where) that there is more data held in spread sheets and documents on individual computers than on central databases and servers. Some of...
I have not been able to find the ML report either, however Philip Russom from TDWI wrote a great report "BI Search and Text Analytics" that contains similar...
I thought list members would find this blog article interesting. I'm pasting in just the first paragraph because I can't paste in the hyperlinks -- ...
Thanks for sharing Seth. Very interesting… From: TextAnalytics@yahoogroups.com [mailto:TextAnalytics@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Seth Grimes Sent:...
I commented, then linked from www.texttechnologies.com It looks like a financial house of cards, frankly, whatever the merits of the underlying business. CAM ...
i'm curious to hear from anyone in this group who has seen a demo or talked to one of the saffron users.http://www.saffrontech.com/news_events.shtml -- mary...
Call for participation: A half-day tutorial on October 26 P.M. on Web search log analysis and user behavior modeling by Peiling Wang, Lei Wu, Dietmar Wolfram ...
Hi, I wanted to make sure you were all aware of these upcoming events. There is a seminar in Predictive Analytics on Sept 24-25 in Chicago, and two following...
To my Fellow TM Colleagues,  My current employer - Insurance Services Office (ISO) / ISO Innovative Analytics is venturing into the TM arena. We are...
Charles, We met while at the Text Summit. It's probably not appropriate for me to respond in this forum given that we are involved in your evaluation process ...
Sure Frank. Whatever you can offer with regards to what other insurance cos are doing.  And yes, I agree with your situation - this would not be the...
US Training Courses for Open Source Text Mining Software RapidMiner (New York & San Francisco, October 2008) Data & Text Mining Training in New York, October...
I wrote an article for Clarabridge's Bridgepoints newsletter on the 80%-unstructured notion that we discussed on the list over the summer. The article is now...
An interesting piece, and that's a general trend with such analytical conclusions, I'm afraid. Gartner's and Mercer's articles in particular leave the...
Hi, I wanted to make sure you were all aware of these upcoming events. There is a seminar in Predictive Analytics on Oct. 24-25 in DC, and in San Francisco Nov...