Month: June 2014

Why Overfitting is More Dangerous than Just Poor Accuracy [PART 2]

In Part I, I explained one problem with overfitting the data: In Part…

DeanAbbott DeanAbbott 5 Min Read

Exploring Big Data Analytics on Microsoft SharePoint

Business intelligence is a critical part of the modern day decision making…

Anand Anand 5 Min Read

Cryptography Is Fun, But Your Business Calls for Encryption

While it’s pretty impressive that Nicolas Cage found a map on the…

timmaliyil timmaliyil 5 Min Read

Learning to Predict Death with Big Data

Death. Many of the discussions around data revolve around death. These discussions…

DrMarsten DrMarsten 8 Min Read

Why Overfitting is More Dangerous than Just Poor Accuracy [PART 1]

Arguably, the most important safeguard in building predictive models is complexity regularization…

DeanAbbott DeanAbbott 7 Min Read

Requirements for Becoming a Strategic Chief Risk Officer

The proliferation of chief “something” officer (CxO) titles over the past decades…

Robert Kugel Robert Kugel 15 Min Read

How Big Data Can Impact the Mining Industry

It’s no secret that big data has led to major changes within…

Rick Delgado Rick Delgado 6 Min Read

What does Whale Vomit have in Common with Big Data and Analytics?

You didn’t think it was possible, did you. Neither did I. Apparently…

Ray Major Ray Major 6 Min Read

John Oliver’s War, the FCC and How You Can Help Keep the Net Neutral

Have you ever made a comment on the Internet about an actress…

Datacenters Datacenters 4 Min Read

Customer Analytics Deserve More Than Spreadsheets

I recently completed two closely related benchmark research reports, on next-generation customer engagement and next-generation…

RichardSnow RichardSnow 6 Min Read