BI 2010 – Optimizing revenue collection
Eugene from SARS, the South African Revenue Service, presented next on how SARS is using BI in revenue collection. He…
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…
A social network… for the one dollar bill in your pocket.
Have you seen this? www.wheresgeorge.com is an effort to track how cold hard cash is flowing across the country. You…
Tableau Public launches visual analysis for the masses
I’m sorry to tell you serious types out there, but visual analysis is often a game — in fact, one…
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…
