Customer Churn and Retention
In any business competitors are always looking to grab your customers, and many customers are on the lookout for a…
Back To School With the 60 Day MBAnalytics
This is my last post to smartdata. If you would like to continue reading my posts and/or following the 60…
From “The Farm” to FarmVille
In an experiment on crowdsourcing intelligence, Applied Research Associates, Inc hopes to see if it can build better intelligence collectors and…
How Are Business Analysts Like Teenagers on the Internet?
Business analysts are in some ways similar to teenagers and college students in how they go about exploring to learn…
Factual’s Crosswalk API
Factual, which is mining the web for knowledge using a variety of web mining methods, has released an API in the…
First Look – Causata
Causata is a software company founded in early 2009 with a heritage from the online space – behavioral targeting on…
Top Five Benefits of a Data Warehouse
According to The Data Warehouse Institute, a data warehouse is the foundation for a successful BI program. The concept of…
First Look – JMP Pro: Exploratory Data and Visualization
I got my first look at JMP recently. JMP originally stood for “John’s Macintosh Project” apparently but is now a…
Skinning ‘analytics’ — the word
“Analytics,” the term, has been twisted so badly that Wayne Eckerson last month felt moved to rescue it with a…
PAW London – Uplift Modelling, Text Analytics and Other Advanced Methods
Case Studies on Uplift Modelling, Text Analytics and Other Advanced Methods Don’t miss the opportunity to see some of the…


