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Predictive Models are Only as Good as Their Acceptance by Decision-Makers

I have been reminded in the past couple weeks working with customers…

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Is there too much data?

I was reading back over some old blog posts, and came across…

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A/B Testing and the Need for Clear Business Objectives

The website http://videolectures.net/ contains a wealth of interesting lectures on a wide variety…

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Predictive Analytics World Recap

Predictive Analytics World (PAW) just ended today, and here are a few…

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Counting Observations

Data is fodder for the data mining process. One fundamental aspect of…

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Is there anything new in Predictive Analytics?

Federal Computer Week's John Zyskowski posted an article on Jan 8, 2010…

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Data Mining and Privacy…again

A google search tonight on "data mining" referred to the latest DHS…

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Overlap in the Business Intelligence / Predictive Analytics Space

I've received considerable feedback on the post Business Intelligence vs. Business Analytics,…

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Business Analytics vs. Business Intelligence

I used to be one that thought the term "data mining" would…

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Stratified Sampling vs. Posterior Probability Thresholds

One of the great things about conference like the recent Predictive Analytics…

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