Mixed-Effects Models in R with Quantum Forest
For anyone who wants to estimate linear or nonlinear mixed-effects models (aka random-effects models, hierarchical models or multilevel models) using the…
The Human Factor Continually Confounds Probability Models
With four weeks to go in the 2011 Major League Baseball season, the probability of the Boston Red Sox of…
Big Data: It’s About the Data, Not About the Big
Today in my local paper there was an article on the 17th annual Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining conference. The…
First Look – Causata
Causata is a software company founded in early 2009 with a heritage from the online space – behavioral targeting on…
First Look – JMP Pro: Exploratory Data and Visualization
I got my first look at JMP recently. JMP originally stood for “John’s Macintosh Project” apparently but is now a…
PAW London – Uplift Modelling, Text Analytics and Other Advanced Methods
Case Studies on Uplift Modelling, Text Analytics and Other Advanced Methods
Quickly Deploy a Well-Engineered Apache Hadoop Solution to a Production Environment
As a former enterprise CTO and current technology watcher, I was struck at the incredible brilliance of yesterday’s announcement by Dell
First Look – IBM In-Database Analytics
IBM SPSS has been supporting in-database analytic modeling for a while now. Their objective is to make it possible for…
Get an early start for on-time data modeling
I’m a data modeler, so I enjoyed Jonathon Geiger’s recent article entitled “Why Does Data Modeling Take So Long”. But…
