Predictive Modeling Skills: Expect to be Surprised
Excerpted from Chapter 1 of my book Applied Predictive Analytics, Wiley 2014Excerpted…
Similarities and Differences Between Predictive Analytics and Business Intelligence
I’ve been reminded recently of the overlap between business intelligence and predictive…
Why Overfitting is More Dangerous than Just Poor Accuracy [PART 2]
In Part I, I explained one problem with overfitting the data: In Part…
Why Overfitting is More Dangerous than Just Poor Accuracy [PART 1]
Arguably, the most important safeguard in building predictive models is complexity regularization…
A Good Business Objective Beats a Good Algorithm
Predictive Modeling competitions, once the arena for a few data mining conferences,…
The NSA, Link Analysis and Fraud Detection
The recent leaks about the NSA’s use data mining and predictive analytics…
Do Predictive Modelers Need to Know Math?
Predictive analytics is just a bunch of math, isn’t it? After all,…
Takeaways From Your Next Predictive Analytics Conference
Why should one go to a predictive analytics conference? What should one…
Using Geographic Data
Most organizations collect and maintain some type of geographic data, yet many…