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In-database Scoring with PMML, Zementis, and Sybase IQ: Big Data Analytics Made Easy

December 12, 2011 by Michael Zeller
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"Not all analytic tasks are born the same. If one is confronted with massive volumes of data that need to be scored on a regular basis, in-database scoring sounds like the logical thing to do. In all likelihood, the data in these cases is already stored in a database and, with in-database scoring, there is no data movement. Data and models reside together hence scores and predictions flow on an accelerated pace." [read more]

Ensuring safety and process reliabilty through predictive analytics and PMML

November 18, 2010 by Michael Zeller
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Predictive analytics is an integral part of our daily lives. At this very moment, predictive solutions are busy at work, monitoring financial transactions for fraud and abuse, recommending movies and other products, or selecting the next best offer you will get from your favorite store. As much as it permeates our lives today, the... [read more]

PMML support is growing rapidly. From down under and into the stars!

June 4, 2010 by Alex Guazzelli
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Back in November 2009, I reported on PMML and Open Source Data Mining, highlighting the support open source tools offered for PMML. It is obvious that open source tools for predictive analytics are gaining more and more momentum. Just last month, the KDNuggets.com website ran a poll which asked visitors to vote for the tools they had... [read more]

Predictive Analytics in your iPhone

May 19, 2010 by Michael Zeller
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It was just a matter of time! You can now execute predictive models directly from your iPhone. Yes, very convenient given that now predictions are made available to you no matter where you are. This is what the new iPhone web app developed by Dymatrix offers to DynaMine customers: A mobile real-time next best offer system powered by... [read more]

Scorecards in PMML: A Primer

February 22, 2010 by Michael Zeller
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Scorecards are extremely popular, since they provide a clear and effective to way to predict outcome for a variety of situations. By clear I mean that the logic behind the scores obtained via a scorecard can be easily understood and appreciated. Scorecards are effective for situations in which you want to predict the probability of... [read more]

3 Ways to Access Your Predictive Analytics in the Cloud

February 16, 2010 by Michael Zeller
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It is safe to say today that cloud computing is pervasive. More and more individuals and companies are using the cloud from text editing to simulating the weather ... and using ADAPA on the Amazon Cloud all over the world to predict customer behavior, risk, machine break-downs, fraud, ... At first, users of ADAPA on the Cloud needed to... [read more]

SAIC and Zementis to bring "smarts" to the Smart Grid

October 23, 2009 by Michael Zeller
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It seems that every tech blog or news I read these these days is talking about two things: Cloud Computing and the Smart Grid. Well, in here, I will be covering both topics and more. I "predict" you will find it interesting.The Smart Grid is definitely where we should go as a nation and as a world that is faced with several challenges... [read more]

The latest ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter is out. Focus on open source analytics and PMML

October 19, 2009 by Michael Zeller
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The latest issue of ACM SIGKDD Explorations is out! This issue is relevant in many ways, since it not only gives special attention to open source analytics (including articles on Weka and KNIME), but it also discusses PMML and cloud computing.PMML, in particular, gets special treatment. It is described in a full article written by Rick... [read more]

Open standards for data mining and the need for training material

October 14, 2009 by Michael Zeller
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PMML awareness is growing. Many companies have recently joined the DMG (Data Mining Group) and others are already in the process of adopting PMML as their main vehicle to represent models and data manipulation. The availability of PMML resources is key to its success. Zementis and the other DMG members are committed to publish training... [read more]

Examining PMML 4.0 - Part I: Pre-Processing

June 22, 2009 by Michael Zeller
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You may be wondering what is all the fuss around PMML and its latest 4.0 version. So, we decided to explore all that PMML 4.0 has to offer in a series of blogs. In part I, we will be exploring its improved pre-processing capabilities.All data mining models manipulate the raw data in a way or another before passing it through a a neural... [read more]

How to Score 300,000,000 Customer Records for $3

June 2, 2009 by Michael Zeller
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Cloud computing promises lower cost and higher scalability. Translating this to a real-world practical application for predictive analytics, here is what this means for you in simple facts and numbers. With the Zementis ADAPA scoring engine on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, you can score over 300 million (!) records for about $3, all... [read more]

Open Source Analytics Reaches Main Street (and Some Other Trends in Analytics)

May 12, 2009 by Robert Grossman
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This is the first of three posts about systems, applications, services and architectures for building and deploying analytics. Sometimes this is called analytic infrastructure. This post is primarily directed at the analytic infrastructure needs of companies. Later posts will look at analytic infrastructure for the research... [read more]

ADAPA means business - Predictive Analytics in 90 seconds

April 22, 2009 by Michael Zeller
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Watch this short video to learn how ADAPA will help you predict future customer behavior today. What can predictive analytics do for you, when you deploy your predictive models in ADAPA and are able to start using them right away?Combining predictive analytics with cloud computing, ADAPA presents new opportunities to leverage... [read more]

Learning About Cloud Analytics

April 15, 2009 by Robert Grossman
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Clouds are changing the way that analytic models get built and the way they get deployed.Neither analytics nor clouds have standard definitions yet.A definition I like is to define analytics as the analysis of data to support decisions. For example, analytics is used in marketing to develop statistical models for acquiring... [read more]

PAW: High-Performance Scoring of Healthcare Data

February 18, 2009 by James Taylor
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Live from Predictive Analytics WorldNatasha Balac from UC San Diego and Michael Zeller from Zementis (their product was blogged here and their support for the amazon.com compute cloud was discussed here) presented on the use of Medicare and Medicaid data to detect and prevent fraud. The high computing center at UC San Diego (San Diego... [read more]