Jamie's Junk

I was happily surprised at the reception of the Addins at my presentation at PASS in Seattle yesterday - one report was that the audience was "drooling". If you're one that just couldn't make it to Seattle this week - no sweat! I will be presenting the...

Informit.com has made available a complete data mining chapter from Practical Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2005 . The co-author of the book, John Hancock, is a Microsoft Consultant out of Canada that I've had the pleasure to meet. He visited...

I've added a couple more diagrams to the LiveSample page at sqlserverdatamining.com . This time there's a Clustering diagram showing three different views of the same cluster model, plus a Dependency Net made from the MovieClick data available on the...

I've been playing around and testing the Data Mining Templates for Visio 2007 (part of the Data Mining Addins for Office 2007 ) and it's even more fun than I imagined when we came up with the feature. Last week I audited a new BI course for ISV's that...

Download at your pleasure from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=aa0c2623-b432-4a1f-9a3c-9d64df130a61&DisplayLang=en Enjoy! Important Excerpts from the download page: If you have questions about the Data Mining Add...

A few weeks ago I did an analyst briefing with David Norris of Bloor research on Microsoft's data mining strategy. I wasn't really expecting any press out of it, but he wrote up this article on his impressions Sometimes Microsoft does things very well...