I get to have some interesting encounters in my job. For the last 18 months I have been campaigning first in the DoD and then in the commercial space to bring to market a new kind of software. It’s job in life it digest massive amounts of data and event information to come up with […]
As per request, some additional information on the housing market in the US. Rather than pull someone else’s good work today, we are going to delve into the output of an interesting and unique piece of software that called “Hardtack”. Hardtack is a system that “strip mines” a variety of MLS databases (real estate multiple […]
UPDATE (10/15/06): Henderson has posted some of his data and observations above. “Evil” Bruce Henderson, my co-blogger, has developed a data mining tool that constantly surveys the web, building up data about housing prices and mortgages being issued. The results are troubling, to say the least; I’ll leave it to him to post the information […]
What Were We Thinking?
As Webster has mentioned, some time early in 2006 I started tracking several pieces of the financial sector using a new tool I invented that we named “Boomerang”. Suffice to say it was originally conceived as a tool for intelligence fusion for things like the war on terror. Unable to find a vehicle inside the […]
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