Why are Businesses Implementing Social Software?
We recently conducted a social business adoption survey, our second this year, and in reviewing the results we're seeing some…
Attensity Co-Presenting with Wells Fargo on Enabling Companies to Improve Customer Loyalty through Text Analytics
Attensity and Customer to Speak Jointly at Teradata PARTNERS 2010 Conference What: Presentation topic: “Text Analytics in a Conversation-Driven Enterprise.” Enterprises…
How Data Analytics Will Solve Our Biggest Problems
Researchers are close to testing a vaccine for HIV that was developed based on data analytics. A hospital was able…
The three legged stool – business, analytics, IT
I was inspired to write something this week on the need to get people to collaborate by a post Jim…
The Data Budget
Larger quantities of data permit greater precision, greater certainty and more detail in analysis. As observation counts increase, standard errors…
Data Quality Magic
In previous posts I explained that, at least in regards to data quality, there are no magic beans, tooth fairies,…
You need to use social services to understand them
I don’t know if Malcolm Gladwell is right when he claims “the revolution will not be tweeted,” but I can…
Auto-correlation for time series analysis
Recently, I was reading the EPFL magazine and was surprised to see an article where they interviewed my master thesis…
Online privacy: what’s at stake
It is widely believed that a flourishing democracy requires an independent, diverse, and financially solvent press. With print newspapers set…
Predictive Analytics World Addresses Risk and Fraud Detection
Eric Siegel focused his plenary session on predicting and assessing risk in the enterprise, and in his usual humorous way,…