Of Risk Control and Thanksgiving Turkeys
To forecast the future, marketing leaders often look to the past. But the past isn’t always a very reliable gauge…
Stratified Sampling vs. Posterior Probability Thresholds
One of the great things about conference like the recent Predictive Analytics World is how many technical interactions one has…
NYT: SAS facing stiff competition
In a front-page article in Sunday's business section, the New York Times takes a look at SAS and how it…
Analytic truth and myth
Copyright © 2009 James Taylor. Visit the original article at Analytic truth and myth.Alison Bolen posted a nice list of…
Tipping Points
The term "business analytics" is on everyone’s lips. It’s like when you buy a new car, suddenly you see that…
Analytics is Not a Dirty Word
What seems like a lifetime ago, I was intelligence officer in the Air Force. Beyond creating Snoopy calendars on the mainframe…
IBM: Numerati paradise
It's been about three weeks that I've been "covering" IBM for BusinessWeek. I haven't done any articles yet, but I…
Government IT Savings Success – Time to Open the Piggy Bank…Carefully
Australia's Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner recently heralded the Gershon Review and resultant reforms by Federal Government as a success. A…
Predictive analytics panel at Business Analytics Summit
Copyright © 2009 James Taylor. Visit the original article at Predictive analytics panel at Business Analytics Summit.I hosted a panel…
PMML and Open Source Data Mining – Predictive Analytics on the go!
Open source tools provide a cost-effective, yet powerful option for data mining. The following contenders adhere to the PMML standard…
