Metafy Blog

Seth Godin's "Websheet"

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:56:25 -0600

Derek Scruggs pointed out Seth Godin’s post about wanting a “websheet”...well, feast your eyes on a quick process I whipped up to show how Anthracite can help do this today. Based on his example, we w

SEC Form 4 Info to hCard Microformat

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:21:22 -0600

Anthracite does Microformats! This is pretty exciting for me. I know that many customers are using Anthracite’s web mining tools to do sales prospecting work, including many using SEC Edgar filings to

Slashdot: “Text Mining the New York Times”

Thu, 3 Aug 2006 18:41:52 -0600

Slashdot posting by Roland Piquepaille covers “topic modeling” of the New York Times using a novel method based on Matlab developed by the University of California, Irvine.

Why Anthracite? Half million dollar ETL tools still found inadequate...

Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:58:34 -0600

It’s been on my bookshelf for awhile, but I just finished reading through Arshad Khan’s “Data Warehousing 101: Concepts and Implementation” and while it may not be the greatest work of literature ever

Anthracite 1.5.1 Released

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:00:33 -0600

Anthracite version 1.5.1 is now available for download. This version fixes several user reported issues, makes a few cosmetic improvements, and adds a few new sample documents (including the wind exam