Analytics and Hedgehogs: Lessons from the Tampa Bay Rays
The Tampa Bay Rays spend significantly less on payroll than some of the wealthier teams in Major League Baseball, but…
Selecting Big Data Sources for Predictive Analytics
Why is big data valuable? Because it’s big? Not really. In fact, very large datasets always come with a very…
Stat Models, Astronomical Mysteries…and Business Data
If you look at the picture below (Pleiades constellation), you will see - with the naked eye - that many…
Data Visualization: Storytelling, Skills, and Utility
I recently read an interview on the Harvard Business Review blog with Amanda Cox, who is a trained statistician and…
Tracking Adwords Conversions in Salesforce: 6 Challenges
With the impending “end-of-life” of Salesforce for Google Adwords, I thought I’d dive a bit deeper into some of the…
Five BI and Analytics Takeaways from Gartner Summit 2013
The Gartner Summit in Grapevine, TX, this year was pretty fantastic, and Domo had a big presence there. But rather…
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…
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…
