The “Avoidability” of Forecast Error [PART 2]
While I've long advocated the use of Coefficient of Variation (CV) as a quick and dirty indicator of the forecastability of a time-series, its deficiencies are well recognized. It is…
Business Analytics vs. Business Intelligence
I used to be one that thought the term "data mining" would stay as the description of the kind of analytic work I do. To a large degree it has,…
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