Is SOA Enabling Intelligent Agents?
I recently blogged about sofware agents, mostly musing about how to reconcile their inherent rationality with our lack thereof as…
“Predictive analytics allows your organization to learn from its collective experience and puts this…”
“Predictive analytics allows your organization to learn from its collective experience and puts this knowledge to action. Let’s say, for…
Free BI for Higher Ed
For over five years, Microstrategy has been part of an educational service from Teradata allowing universities free access to an…
Micro Economies of Attention
Oscar Berg just alerted me to a nice post on the Connectbeam Social Computing Blog about “Micro Economies of Attention”…
When Telecom customers complain-Pt. 2
On the previous post I explained the first steps in deploying Information Extraction, Text Mining and Computational Linguistics to capture the…
Automating Regression Models :KXEN
Note: I have used KXEN both for modeling internet leads in 2008 as well as for consumer finance propensity models…
11 Parallels Between Architecture and Interface Design
I had a fascinating discussion with my sister-in-law, a real-life professional Architect, about the parallels between her work and the…
Transparency vs. Simplicity
As regular readers know, I am strong advocate for transparency in any system where people interact with machines. In fact,…
5 Phases of Data Analytics Maturation: Part 1
Recently, while meeting with one of our clients, they mentioned their desire to provide their customer's business team with the…
A tough attribution problem: Do Marketing Affiliates deserve all the credit they get?
Recently, I received a tough question from one of the well known web analysts in our industry. “Your book did…