Apologies for the lack of recent posts.  I've been *very* busy on many Data Mining Analytics projects in my role as a Data Mining Consultant for SAS. …

I’ve not done a lot of analysis in the finance industry, and my Google searches didn’t yield helpful insights for similar data mining. I just finished a…

In a previous post last year I mentioned a particularly nasty and blatant breach of confidentiality regarding fixed line telephony data. The update is that Optus recently…

I found this year’s PAW in Washington a great success. Although I was only able to attend for one day (the day I presented), the handful of…

Ensemble models seem to be all the buzz at the moment. The NetFlix prize was won by a conglomerate of various models and approaches that each excelled…

I got a ton of ideas whilst attending the Teradata Partners conference and also Predictive Analytics World. I think my presentations went down well (well, I got good…

Next week I'll be in Washington DC for Teradata Partners and also Predictive Analytics World. I'm presenting how leveraging the social interactions of the Optus mobile/cellphone customer base…

Analysts don't usually quote predictive model performance. Data Mining within each industry is different, and even within the telecommunications industry definitions of churn are inconsistent. This often…

Over the years I have purchased a few data mining, machine learning, and even statistics books. I'll confess that I haven't read every book page by page,…

Quick post because I'm swamped with work...Last year, at the Asia Teradata User Group in Beijing, I presented some generic data mining that was being performed at…