I am sometimes asked about the origin of the name of our company – Chiliad. My frequent (tongue-in-cheek) answer is that Chiliad is a Greek word meaning “iterative discovery in Big Data!” Some people pronounce it like “kill-ee-ad”, while others say “chill-ee-ad” (inside the company, we use the first pronunciation). Actually, Chiliad truly is a [...]
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Just Another Pretty Face? Not Exactly.
I am often asked, “Why should we consider Chiliad?” As the CEO, I confess that this is a question I welcome because it gets to the heart of how we distinguish ourselves. We recently created an entirely new look and feel to our software through a modified graphical user interface. Our VP of Marketing, Ken [...]
Search vs. Correlation vs. Causality—What do your goals require?
Which sounds MORE like the question you want answered? How many times did this happen? When does this tend to this happen? Why does this happen? We’ve learned the type of question drives the most useful tool. Let’s start with the basics: “How many times did this happen?” Other related questions start with “How much”—”How [...]
Result Ranking: Quality Matters
We are often asked by prospects and customers how we rank the documents we return in our Iterative Discovery process. Ranking is at the core of what we do and is the result of extensive research conducted by Chiliad and our research partners. By ranking, I mean ordering with respect to some measure of quality. Relevance is [...]
A Brilliant Form of Gorgeous
As recently as last month, our user interface—the graphical look our users see every day—was OK. But not better than that. And truth to tell (after all, Intellectual Integrity is a company value), occasionally worse. Yet that “OK” user interface sits on top of the greatest Big Data engine the world has ever known. It [...]
Tic-Tac-Toe: A Sales Strategy Perspective
From an early age, I learned that success requires strategy—some plan or method to achieve a desired outcome. Playing tic-tac-toe as a kid, I placed an “X,” my opponent placed an “O,” and so forth until a winner emerged. I liked to win, so I honed my strategy until I was the one who most [...]
