The Data Mining Mystery
by Steven Chabotte.Data mining is the art of extracting nuggets of gold from a set of seeminngly meaningless and random data. For the web, this data can be in the form of your server hit log, a database of visitors to ...
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Know Thy Finances
by Shanti Braford.The first step to financial success lies in knowing your financial situation at any given time. There is an anecdote attributed to John D. Rockefeller--that as a child he was given a monthly allowanc...
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Beating The Business Blues
by Terri Seymour.Internet marketing is a wonderful business, but if you are like me, there are days when you get really down and just can't seem to get going. This is compounded for some people with the Winter Blues....
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Slovenia - The Star Pupil
by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D..The most exciting event in Slovenia last week was when a group of young army recruits spat on the national flag and sang the anthem of the now defunct former Yugoslavia. They were sent to a military ...
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The Second Coming in Albania
by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D..Blessed with Chinese GDP growth rates (7-8% annually in each of the last 3 years) and German inflation (4%, down from 32% in 1997, mostly attributable to increases in energy and housing costs), it is...
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Hawala, or The Bank That Never Was
by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D..I. OVERVIEW In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the USA, attention was drawn to the age-old, secretive, and globe-spanning banking system developed in Asia and known as "Hawala" (t...
Financial Crises
by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D..The recent upheavals in the world financial markets were quelled by the immediate intervention of both international financial institutions such as the IMF and of domestic ones in the developed count...
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