Predictive Analytics in Action: Anthony Goldbloom of Kaggle
What do brilliant data scientists, roller derby enthusiasts, and Prince William lookalikes have in common? You can find all three…
Data by the Book: You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Until It’s Gone
Big data, with all of its vastness and mystery – and confusion – is actually a remarkably straightforward concept: store…
Managing Details in Long-Range Planning
Ventana Research recently completed an in-depth benchmark research project on long-range planning. As I define it, long-range planning is the formal quantification…
The Big Data Security Transformation
For those of us in the security profession it an extremely exciting but also daunting time. The number and aggressiveness…
Predictive Analytics in the Marketplace: Insights from PAWCON
A couple of weeks ago I attended Predictive Analytics World (#PAWCON), a multi-city conference focusing on how organizations are leveraging predictive analytics…
Selecting Big Data Sources for Predictive Analytics
Why is big data valuable? Because it’s big? Not really. In fact, very large datasets always come with a very…
One-Number Forecasting: A New Worst Practice?
The one-number forecasting concept has been debated for years.Advocates argue that having different groups within the same organization working to…
Do Predictive Modelers Need to Know Math?
Predictive analytics is just a bunch of math, isn’t it? After all, algorithms in the form of matrix algebra, summations,…
Big Data and Rise of Predictive Analytics
Back in mid 1990s, when I was a Ph.D. student, one of the professors asked me what my career goal…
Predicting Lying and Predicting Dying
Who benefits by predicting your behavior? Organizations do—companies, governments, hospitals, and political campaigns. They employ predictive analytics, technology that learns…
