Privacy Policy Perspectives
Whenever a site asks me to read their privacy policy before entering my info, my immediate reaction is to just…
IRS Internal Migration Data and Housing Bubble
Earlier this week, I suggested a potential business application of IRS’s internal migration data for a moving and relocation company.…
Building Competitive Advantage through New Data
One subject that has not received a lot of coverage in the analytics blogging circle is the current administration’s data.gov…
The Best ‘NEXT’ Campaigns
So much time & money is spent on converting prospects into customers or members. We advertise on TV, the radio,…
Web Mining: Short/Long Term User Profile
It’s now nearly one year that I manage a project about targeted advertising for a Telco company in Switzerland. The…
We’re SO predictable… but you knew I would say that.
There is a new article in the Journal Science that has analyzed 50,000 cell phone users’ data (in Europe) to…
For data-mining cops, tattoos are tags
Anyone concerned about privacy in a world of surveillance cameras should read the New York Times article on tattoos. New…
Predictive Analytics: 8 Things to Keep in Mind (Part 1)
I, along with two of my colleagues (Anand Rao & Dick Findlay), recently conducted a workshop at the World Research…
Predictive Analytics World Recap
Predictive Analytics World (PAW) just ended today, and here are a few thoughts on the conference. PAW was a bigger…
Defining Analytics: Analytics
Following-up to my blog 'Just Tell Me What I'm Doing', this is the third in a series of posts that…
