Self-Promoters Score! Why Analysts Can’t be Shy Anymore
It’s 2011. Analytics is hot! Does that mean we analysts are hot, too? Well, no. “Hot” isn’t a term…
The Average Hotel Does Not Get The Average Rating
The millions of travelers who review hotels, restaurants, and other attractions on TripAdvisor also supply a numeric rating by clicking…
The World of Data [INFOGRAPHIC]
We constantly hear about how much data we are creating every day – check out this interesting little infographic by…
Text Analytics WIIFM (What’s in it for Me?)
Every day or so, someone asks me what’s hot in analytics now. My answer is simple – text. Text analytics,…
CRISP-DM Data Mining Methodology in Hypertext Form
CRISP-DM – Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining – is the best known data mining methodology out there. It’s been…
Essential Elements of Data Mining
This is my attempt to clarify what Data Mining is and what it isn’t. According to Wikipedia, “In philosophy, essentialism…
Data to the People!
Government debt and spending have recently sparked exceptionally intense and controversial debates in the US, the UK and the Eurozone.…
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Decision Management Solutions, the company of which I am CEO, is running a study on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud…