[hexis]

It's great to see someone taking piles of data and pulling some meaning out of it. I think it's easy enough these days to be able to see the potential of data-mining a site like Facebook, but I expect a lot of value to come out of sites like FlightCaster that are getting value in domains that folks don't normally think of being data-intensive. Google was more or less data-mining, but it was a relatively easy set of data to access: public websites. Now, we're seeing the exploitation of more obscure, but not necessarily less valuable, data.

[jaf12duke]

Thanks Hexis. The key for us was being able to combine deep domain expertise with Brad's data-mining capabilities. The model is a nice mix of statistical induction and domain-based logic. We're adding more data sources to it, so both the power of the algorithms and capabilities will only get better.

~Jason (@FlightCaster)