Who’s the main competitor to the new method? What’s the catch?

The solution we are talking about in these posts is DIFFERENT and gives added value to other products as it…

Editor SDC
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SAS: Great Revenues in a Bad Economy

Jim Goodnight, the CEO of SAS, is happy. Not only did Gartner rank his company as a leader in the…

Declining Business Intelligence Jobs in 2009?

For some time now, I have used Monster job searches to gauge demand for Business Intelligence technologies. What I failed…

Data Mining Research Updated

I’m happy to inform you that Data Mining Research (www.dataminingblog.com) is updated! The blog is now on Wordpress and self-hosted…

SandroSaitta
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Another view: maybe IT doesn’t want to be aligned to the business

Geek & Poke’s Oliver Widder responded to my recent post on “Business-IT alignment is dead,” and comments that in some…

JoeMcKendrick
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A Game at Hell’s Gate

Let’s say you lived the life of a gambler and now, dead, you are standing at the gates of hell…

Editor SDC
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More Matlab/IB Code

Here is some more Matlab code to interact with Interactive Brokers' API. Check the previous tutorial on connecting Matlab to…

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Survivorship Bias

Survivorship bias is a simple idea but it's a good time to bring it up after the previous notes on…

Editor SDC
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Interactive Brokers via Matlab

Here's a video guide to using the Interactive Brokers API with Matlab.The following are the notes that go along with…

Editor SDC
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Overfitting II: Out-of-Sample Testing

Previously I wrote a note on overfitting during training. Now after reading that, let's imagine a normal scenario-You're trying to…

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