MarkTab Inc. is a sponsor for SQL Saturday 220, Atlanta, GA (May 18), and will be giving away five passes to the three-day Experience Data Mining training on September 10-12, 2013. I will also be presenting two topics at SQL Saturday: first, Secrets of Enterprise Data Mining, and second, Applied Enterprise Semantic Mining. This post has the details.
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I will be presenting a talk titled Data Analysis with R and Julia for the PASS Virtual Business Analytics Conference on May 9 (12 PM, UTC -4). I had previously presented this talk at the PASS Business Analytics Conference in Chicago. This talk will even be better: I will be enhancing the presentation based on feedback people had during that time. As well, I am inviting people from the new Meetup group, Atlanta Julia Users, to both attend and see this talk. This blog post has the details.
Query: How can I improve the performance speed of WordPress with GoDaddy?
Response:
I have been happily using WordPress since 2010. I have found myself doing plug-in trial-and-error with different solutions to improve the speed. Anyone could open a blog at wordpress.com and leave the management issues to experts. However, I desired to have my blog hosted at marktab.net, so I installed the software myself on a GoDaddy shared Windows hosting platform. The tips I have in this post will likely work also for Linux-based installation, though as with any change, you need to experiment yourself.
In this post, I will be outlining what I did to improve my website speed on http://marktab.net/datamining (running WordPress 3.5.1 on Windows shared hosting at GoDaddy). Consider these tips for any WordPress 3.x version.
I have been using two tools to judge speed. The first one is called Pingdom Tools http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ which (currently) test speeds using one of their three source servers. This test shows how fast a site might load, but I have found the results to be variable (upon repeat tests in the same session with no changes) and I assume likely influenced by the server’s general load and current network traffic. The second, and what I consider better test, comes from Google’s PageSpeed tools https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/. Google is a major source of hits on my domains, and they have been supporting all web developers with a variety of tools to measure traffic. If you are running a website and are not using Google Webmaster tools, you should look at the benefits.
Google’s Page Speed scores websites between 0 and 100, where higher numbers are better. Their analysis show what the issues are, but how to improve them depends on software used since the service will score any type of website, not just ones running WordPress. Finding out what to do is a matter of trial and error. To achieve my own results I had to try a number of different things given the options available with WordPress 3.5.1 and GoDaddy shared Windows hosting. This post describes a combination which took my WordPress blog from a score in the mid 70′s to over 90.
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Query: How can I improve my speed for DotNetNuke with GoDaddy Shared Hosting?
Response:
I have been using DotNetNuke for website hosting since version 4, on both marktab.net and marktab.com. The relationship has been what I have often described as love and hate. Don’t get me wrong: I like the fact that the community edition I use (and which is available at the Microsoft open source website http://dotnetnuke.codeplex.com) is free. However, many hands have touched the product, and what we have today is — in my opinion — an eclectic collection of the best content management ideas from different minds and groups.
In this post, I will be outlining what I did to improve my website speed on marktab.net (running DotNetNuke 05.04.04) and marktab.com (running DotNetNuke 07.00.02). I believe these tips would also help DotNetNuke 6, even though I recommend new installations use DotNetNuke 7 or higher.
I have been using two tools to judge speed. The first one is called Pingdom Tools http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ which (currently) test speeds using one of their three source servers. This test shows how fast a site might load, but I have found the results to be variable (upon repeat tests in the same session with no changes) and I assume likely influenced by the server’s general load and current network traffic. The second, and what I consider better test, comes from Google’s PageSpeed tools https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/. Google is a major source of hits on my domains, and they have been supporting all web developers with a variety of tools to measure traffic. If you are running a website and are not using Google Webmaster tools, you should look at the benefits.
Google’s Page Speed scores websites between 0 and 100, where higher numbers are better. Their analysis show what the issues are, but how to improve them depends on software used since the service will score any type of website, not just ones running DotNetNuke. Finding out what to do is a matter of trial and error. To achieve my own results I had to try a number of different things given the options available with DotNetNuke and GoDaddy shared hosting. This post describes a combination which took both marktab.net and marktab.com from scores in the mid 50′s to over 90.
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I was invited by Doug Ware to speak at the next Atlanta .NET User Group. The group meeting starts at 6 PM at the Microsoft Alpharetta campus on Monday night, March 25, 2013. And, I’m happy to be speaking the same night as another Atlanta MVP expert, Audrey Hammonds. This post has the details.
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I’m writing today to encourage participation in the periodic 2013 Rexer Analytics Data Miner Survey before it closes (this time) on April 22, 2013 (if you are reading this post after this date, then worry not: you will likely have a chance for a future survey — the next one is scheduled for early 2015). I partcipated myself, and will explain what the survey is about and why and how I am recommending participation. I provide a link for participating, and some results from the past 2011 survey. This post has the details.
I Am a Data Miner
I will be presenting a one-day preconference and regular breakout session at the inaugural PASS Business Analytics Conference on April 10-12 in Chicago, IL. This large conference requires paid registration. This post has details (title and abstract) for the one-day preconference on April 10 and the regular conference session. Also, I provide a promotional code for a US$200 registration discount. However, first I will provide a general case for business analytics learning (in general).
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I will be presenting at SQL Saturday in Mountain View, CA (Silicon Valley) on February 22 and 23. The main SQL Saturday event is on February 23, and requires a small registration fee for lunch. However, I want to invite you to my one-day preconference session on February 22 (Friday), which requires paid conference registration. This post has the details.
SQL Saturday #177 Silicon Valley, CA
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I will be presenting at the almost-free SQL Saturday in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on February 16. This event will be my first time for a Microsoft-related presentation in Canada (my first presentation in Canada was at SAS User Group International, Montreal, in 2004). This post has the details.
SQL Saturday 198 Vancouver, BC
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Data Science ATL February 12, 2013
Data Science ATL is the name of a Meetup group in Atlanta, GA. The group members nominally call themselves “data scientists” but also include the following topics:
I will be presenting on February 12 at Hypepotamus (midtown Atlanta). This post has the details.
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PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) has announced a new virtual (meaning online) chapter for Business Analytics topics. I am honored to be invited by chapter leader Melissa Demsak to be the group’s first speaker on February 12. This post has the details for this free one-hour presentation.
PASS Business Analytics Virtual Chapter
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While preparing for a presentation on SQL Server Data Mining, I discovered an anomaly with activating the SQL Server 2012 PowerShell Provider. At first, I thought about trying to solve the problem. However, with an upcoming 400-level presentation (higher numbers mean more difficult), I decided instead to save the problem for attendees of the three-hour presentation.
This blog post describes the problem. Since I will be in a presentation, I decided to not open the post for comments, but instead would encourage people to use Twitter and (at minimum) two hash tags #sqlpass #datamining to chat about the answer. Perhaps you can explain the anomaly to me.
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