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Today was the first day I had a chance to use Datameer 2.0 on some actual data. I’ve decided to use some of the FEC campaign contribution data and see how Datameer works with the data. Background The Federal Election Commission has made campaign contribution data publicly available for download here. The FEC has provided […]

As of yesterday, June 28, I received the approval to download a 30-day trial for Datameer 2.0. The download and installation for Datameer 2.0 on my MacBook Pro was simple and straightforward. After unpacking the zip file, I simply copied the Datameer file into my applications directory and launched Datameer 2.0. Datameer took about two […]

Datameer has announced version 2.0 putting business intelligence into the hands of the average user. Datameer provides a single application that requires no ETL, no static schemas, and puts powerful analytics and data visualizations directly in the hands of any user. After watching CEO Stefan Groschupf announce the release of Datameer 2.0 at the 2012 […]

Last week, my son (@dsfauthii) and I went to Copper Mountain (@CopperMtn) for 3 days of skiing. As I was skiing, a few thoughts came to mind related to business and life in general. 1. Have fun. I’m not the best skiier but had a great time skiing most of the mountain. Colorado skiing is […]

This post is meant to remind me on how to implement SSL certificates within Java. It was definitely a learning experience digging into trust stores and keystores. Installation of client certificates in a Java client environment This section describes the steps required to install the provided certificates in a Java client environment. In general you […]

In the previous post we showed how Federal Election Commission data could be loaded into Neo4J and manipulated using Gremlin. In this follow-up posting, we’ll modify the data structure and do some further analysis of the data. The FEC Data Graph The FEC data is represented in the following graph. Each committee supports a candidate. […]

This post is inspired by Marko Rodriguez’ excellent post on a Graph-Based Movie Recommendation engine. I will use many of the same concepts that he describes in his post in order to load the data into Neo4J and then begin to analyze the data. This post will focus on the data loading. Follow-on posts will […]

Since the initial posting, I’ve made some updates to the Palantir import helper allows a user to select the report file and then import the file. Once the user clicks on Import, a list of i2 types are presented to the user (both links and entities). The user can map each of the i2 types […]

i2 ANB allows users to export chart information about entities, links, attributes and cards to a report. This is useful if you want to create a report containing the information in all or part of your chart. This report is created as a text file which can then be used in other applications. i2 ANB […]

Some quick links that have popped up over the last few days: Your API Sucks: Why Developers Hang Up and How to Stop That An article from Apigee that talks how APIs don’t need to suck for developers. Get free admission to Strata and a chance to showcase to investors Thanks to Pete Warden, here’s […]