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Statistics: The Need for Integration

I'd like to revisit an issue we covered here, way back in…

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A Judgement of Watson: Mathematics Wins!

Tom Davenport argues in this HBR article Why I'm Pulling for Watson…

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Predictive Analytics Innovation

The Predictive Analytics Summit, a relative newcomer to the Predictive Analytics conference…

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Webinar with James Taylor — 10 Best Practices in Operational Analytics

I'll be presenting a webinar with James Taylor this Wednesday at 10AM…

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Doing Data Mining Out of Order

I like the CRISP-DM process model for data mining, teach from it,…

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The Data Budget

Larger quantities of data permit greater precision, greater certainty and more detail…

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A little math humor, and achieving clarity in explaining solutions

This is still one of my favorite cartoons of all time (by…

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Data Mining Theory vs. Practice

In many fields, it is common to find a gap between theorists…

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