Looking at Trees to Understand the Forest
David Simon (of The Wire fame) has sucked me into another brilliant television series with Generation Kill. It is the story of…
The power of business analytics
I recently presented at IBM's CIO Leadership Exchange on the power of business analytics. With 300+ of IBM's top…
Predictive Analytics and Politics – Part 1
One of the most interesting applications of Data/Text Mining and Information Extraction is Politics. I started collecting information from various…
Web Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
In “Chapters from My Autobiography”, Mark Twain wrote, “There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.” While over one hundred years…
Open Source is Opening Data to Predictive Analytics
The R Project: despite there being over 2 million users of this open-source language for statistical data analysis, you might…
Predictive Analytics: 8 Things to Keep in Mind (Part 4)
Theme 4: Statistical techniques and tools are not likely to provide competitive advantage I read this interesting post from Sijin…
Predictive analytics – some tips
In a great post on 8 things to keep in mind on predictive analytics, some folks from Diamond Management &…
Intelligent Enterprise: You Can Predict that R Will Succeed
Analyst David Stodder at Intelligent Enterprise also noted the activity around R at the recent Predictive Analytics World conference in San…
Socializing
I recently tweeted an observation of David Weinberger's on how our language has shifted: Over the past decade, we’ve gone…
Predictive Analytics: 8 Things to Keep in Mind (Part 3)
Theme 3: Integrating third-party data into predictive analysis This is the third installment of the eight part series on predictive…
