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…
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,…
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…
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…
Technology and the Effective Marketer
In this post, I'll focus on customer intelligence driven marketing and the proper use of data. In the "information economy,"…
The Fundamental Techie
IT Personality Traits That May Surprise YouIt’s a buyer’s market when it comes to top IT talent. As enterprise technology…
Internet Topology: Massive and Amazing Graphs
I selected a few from this Google search. Which one is best? Re-usable in other contexts? What about videos showing…
Lots of Data Does Not Equal “Big Data”
by Joseph Rickert by Joseph RickertWhen talking with data scientists and analysts — who are working with large scale data…
