Posted in development, healthcare on Dec 29th, 2007
I’ve been working on implementing a data warehouse based on open source tools. The actual information system that produces the data runs on Microsoft Sql Server and other MS technologies. I have been asked to implement a minimum cost solution, zero if possible. It appears that some parts of the open source business intelligence domain […]
Posted in IT, development on Dec 16th, 2007
Ok, let’s just accept it, web is not what it used to be anymore. I will not go into details but web user interfaces have accepted and embraced javascript. About five years ago, I was busy trying to build a user interface based on javascript tricks for an electronic claim processing system, and it was […]
Posted in IT, development on Dec 11th, 2007
I have a project in which I have to come up with a basic data warehouse implementation. I have to deal with all the basics, ETL, Cube design, etc, and on top of that I intend to build a naive Bayesian classifier generator for decision support. (I might consider ID3 or C 4.5, but I’m […]
Posted in development, healthcare on Dec 11th, 2007
Ok, I’ll be honest, I’ve always been into probabilistic methods, for they somehow “fit” into my way of thinking. There is something about probabilistic methods, and probability theory; you are either suitable to work with it or not; you either love the field, or hate it.
I’m the kind of guy who has some love hate […]