Defending Your Analytics: Handling Hecklers
The Nature of the Beast The trumpet sounds and the matador, dressed in gold, parades into the ring as a…
Talk Analytics with Executives: 4 Things You Must Understand
Data analysis isn’t something you do for your own entertainment. Businesses pay for analytics to support decision-making, to provide them…
Ensuring safety and process reliabilty through predictive analytics and PMML
Predictive analytics is an integral part of our daily lives. At this very moment, predictive solutions are busy at work,…
Probability and Karl Rove
I was getting ready to drive to the airport in Los Angeles his morning when I got an unusual cell-phone…
Analytics: Frequency Distribution & Bell Curves
A statistical method we often overlook is the distribution curve. I think most of the time it is dismissed because…
Early Indications October 2010: The Analytics Moment: Getting numbers to tell stories
Thanks in part to vigorous efforts by vendors (led by IBM) to bring the idea to a wider public, analytics…
Not your typical financial risk model: A detailed data analysis example
I’ve not done a lot of analysis in the finance industry, and my Google searches didn’t yield helpful insights for…
Top 10 analytics mistakes
One of my favorite presenters, John Elder, presented his top 10 analytic mistakes at Teradata Partners.
Right Time Business Optimization
Mike Ferguson presented on Right Time Business Optimization using on-demand and event-driven analytics at the Teradata Partners conference. Business optimization,…
Design and Delivery Teams – Essential for Enterprise Analytics
People think by comparisons. So let me give you an analogy. I am a big fan of movies – old…
