Taking a Competitive Snapshot
Compete.com is a web analytics startup that has some interesting features that are worth mentioning as they: claim to have a…
The Moneyball-itzation of Marketing
Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane started the “Moneyball Revolution,” where analytics replaced intuition as the primary method of evaluating…
Call-For-Speakers: Predictive Analytics World, Feb 16-17 in San Francisco
The next upcoming Predictive Analytics World is October 20-21, 2009, in Washington DC – see the full program here –…
Analytics Ascendant, Part 2: The Limits of Predictive Modeling
In my last post on predictive modeling (4 August 2009) I used the recent announcement that the Netflix Prize appears…
Analytics Ascendant: Will Predictive Modeling Replace All Other Ways of “Knowing” Customers?
Steve Lohr reported in The New York Times on July 28 that two teams appear to have tied for the…
Is the Mother of All Black Swans Coming?
Whether you like Nassim Taleb’s writing style or not, his books and the ideas within are worth careful study. For…
Is Amazon really that cool as we keep saying?
For all that buzz around Amazon’s sophisticated analytics and its targeted book recommendations, it is worth asking in Kevin Hillstrom’s…
Predictive analytics turn uncertainty into usable probability
Following on from yesterday’s post on analytics, let’s talk about predictive analytics. Another phrase I picked up while working at…
Analytics simplify data to amplify its value
Copyright © 2009 James Taylor. Visit the original article at Analytics simplify data to amplify its value.Syndicated from ebizQ With…
IBM to acquire SPSS
Many news outlets are reporting today that IBM has announced that it will acquire SPSS for 1.2 billion dollars in…
