DavidBakken

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Who knows what happiness lurks in the hearts of men? Facebook knows.

Have you heard about the Facebook Gross National Happiness Index?  On Monday,…

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The Challenge of Predicting Consumer Response to Innovation

In the October 4, 2009 edition of The NY Times “Sunday Business”…

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Recommended reading: The Psychology of Survey Response

The Psychology of Survey Response by Roger Tourangeau, Lance J. Rips, and…

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Do you know what jobs your products do for your customers?

The news last week that Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. was giving…

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Analytics Ascendant, Part 2: The Limits of Predictive Modeling

In my last post on predictive modeling (4 August 2009) I used…

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Analytics Ascendant: Will Predictive Modeling Replace All Other Ways of “Knowing” Customers?

Steve Lohr reported in The New York Times on July 28 that…

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