SAP’s New Fraud Management Analytical Application
SAP recently announced its new Fraud Management analytic applications. Currently in “controlled” (limited) release, it’s a promising start for the product and a…
One-Number Forecasting: A New Worst Practice?
The one-number forecasting concept has been debated for years.Advocates argue that having different groups within the same organization working to…
HIPAA Breach Lessons Learned
While no records were broken when it comes to number of health records disclosed per data breach, the top HIPAA…
Do Predictive Modelers Need to Know Math?
Predictive analytics is just a bunch of math, isn’t it? After all, algorithms in the form of matrix algebra, summations,…
Digital Heirlooms: What Lasts in a Digital Age?
I've been thinking a lot lately about the invisible consequences of our smartphone/mobile/digital world. Somewhere down the road, the dematerialization…
What 3 Measures Are Your Business Game Changers?
I don’t know what it is exactly, but Opening Day for Major League Baseball is special. I don’t know what…
Cindy Weng Named Community Digital Strategist
It’s my particular pleasure to announce that Cindy Weng has joined Smart Data Collective and the Social Media Today team…
What Big Data Doesn’t Appear to Tell Us, But Actually Does
While researching Too Big to Ignore, I discovered that Big Data is already having a major impact on a wide…
Big Data and Rise of Predictive Analytics
Back in mid 1990s, when I was a Ph.D. student, one of the professors asked me what my career goal…
Predicting Lying and Predicting Dying
Who benefits by predicting your behavior? Organizations do—companies, governments, hospitals, and political campaigns. They employ predictive analytics, technology that learns…
