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Predictive Modeling Skills: Expect to be Surprised

Excerpted from Chapter 1 of my book Applied Predictive Analytics, Wiley 2014Excerpted…

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Similarities and Differences Between Predictive Analytics and Business Intelligence

I’ve been reminded recently of the overlap between business intelligence and predictive…

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

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

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

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

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A Good Business Objective Beats a Good Algorithm

Predictive Modeling competitions, once the arena for a few data mining conferences,…

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Big Data Is Not Enough

Big data is the big buzz word in the world of analytics…

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Do Predictive Modelers Need to Know Math?

Predictive analytics is just a bunch of math, isn’t it? After all,…

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Takeaways From Your Next Predictive Analytics Conference

Why should one go to a predictive analytics conference? What should one…

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Using Geographic Data

Most organizations collect and maintain some type of geographic data, yet many…

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