Not your typical financial risk model: A detailed data analysis example
I’ve not done a lot of analysis in the finance industry, and my Google searches didn’t yield helpful insights for…
Top 10 analytics mistakes
One of my favorite presenters, John Elder, presented his top 10 analytic mistakes at Teradata Partners.
Right Time Business Optimization
Mike Ferguson presented on Right Time Business Optimization using on-demand and event-driven analytics at the Teradata Partners conference. Business optimization,…
Parents and kids: Missives and feeds
When I went away to college, I tried to write my parents a letter every week. This letter was a…
The three legged stool – business, analytics, IT
I was inspired to write something this week on the need to get people to collaborate by a post Jim…
Auto-correlation for time series analysis
Recently, I was reading the EPFL magazine and was surprised to see an article where they interviewed my master thesis…
Truly Distributed Analytics
The growth and success of Hadoop is very interesting. It is emerging as a highly significant technology for the data…
Some NoSQL Myths
I have been busy travelling recently but thought I would jot down a couple of NoSQL myths that are fresh…
How to analyze unfamiliar data: circle, dive, and riff
When you come face to face with unfamiliar data, how do you proceed? How do you avoid sending you and…
How are Predictive Analytics related to Performance?
A few months ago, I posted a video blog to start a conversation around the term "Analytics". I had asked you:How…
