The Future of Soccer is in its Analytics
The Soccer World Cup, watched by billions around the world, is estimated to bring $12.5B to South Africa and contribute…
Why Can’t We Just Use Prediction Markets?
Prediction markets were all the rage a few years ago, two of the most notable being the Iowa Electronic Market…
Horse Racing’s Triple Crown – Just like Business Analysts*
The Belmont horserace, third leg of the USA’s prestigious Triple Crown races, was this past week-end. It made me think…
PMML support is growing rapidly. From down under and into the stars!
Back in November 2009, I reported on PMML and Open Source Data Mining, highlighting the support open source tools offered…
The “Right” Degree of Automation
Social media monitoring and measurement is hard. Knowing what to do with the data, how to respond and how to…
Hugo Chavez should optimize Twitter
Venezuela's charismatic president, Hugo Chavez, is the country's most popular twitterer, with more than half a million followers. A Reuters…
Predictive Analytics: 8 Things to Keep in Mind (Part 7)
Theme 7: Prototype, Pilot, Scale Edison did not invent the light bulb. He took a working concept and developed hundreds…
Looking at the increasing role of social media within business intelligence
The role of business intelligence (BI) is slowly shifting within organizations. People speak about the transition from traditional uses towards…
Statisticians zero in on Euro crooner
Kaggle, a British-based platform for prediction contests, has sponsored an unusual statistics competition, inviting teams from all over Europe to…
The expansion of social media analytics – does it go too far?
Attensity Group recently announced the availability of their Social Media Monitoring solution called Attensity360, targeting the European market. The product…
