2015 Update about CMG'14 presentation:

The CMG'14 conference was a blast!  The presentation of our paper that we wrote with my colleague Brian Eck was very well accepted.  Thank you!

Sources of Traffic Demand Variability and Use of Monte Carlo for Network Capacity Planning

Alexander Gilgur and Brian Eck 

For more info about CMG and the Conference, see this site: http://www.cmg.org/conferences/performance-capacity-2014/ (I'm afraid you'll have to be a CMG member though)

 

A good overview of languages for data analytics

http://machinelearningmastery.com/best-programming-language-for-machine-learning/

Of course I'm biased :-)

An excellent performance and capacity blog by Bob Wescott

http://rwwescott.wordpress.com/

The series of posts on Predictive SPC became the basis of a paper presented at ASA's Conference on Statistical Practice (CSP'14) in February, 2014 in Tampa, FL

http://www.amstat.org/meetings/csp/2014/onlineprogram/index.cfm

Feel free to site as
"Alex Gilgur, Josep Ferrandiz (2014).  Predictive SPC.  Conference on Statistical Practice by American Statistical Association.  Tampa, FL.  February, 2014"