Gartner says predictive analytics are the hot BI topic.
Rita Sallam, BI analyst for Gartner, says that the use of predictive analytics software will be pervasive by 2020. By…
Revealing Human Nature through Social Media Measurement
The Atlantic Ocean contains 100 billion, billion gallons of water and "if each gallon of water represented a byte or…
Are You Asking the Right Questions with Predictive Analytics?
Predictive analytics can help companies forecast business results with stunning accuracy – for example, how a particular group of customers might…
Listening In: Big Ideas About Big Data
National Public Radio is not the most obvious place for a deep dive on “The New World of Massive Data…
Musings on Watson: Why Healthcare?
(An earlier version of this article was published at http://www.constellationrg.com/blog/2011/12/musings-watson-why-healthcare)
Target variables matter but so do decisions.
Dean Abbot wrote a great post recently “Why Defining the Target Variable in Predictive Analytics is Critical” in which he…
Using Analytics to Handicap The Masters Golf Tournament
When Bubba Watson made par on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff to defeat Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa…
The STEM Profession that Women Dominate
Do you know which major STEM field boasts as many women in the profession as men? Where almost half the…
Why Defining the Target Variable in Predictive Analytics is Critical
Every data mining project begins with defining what problem will be solved. I won't describe the CRISP-DM process here, but…
Using Analytics to Create Rating Territories
One of the many areas of property and casualty risk analysis is the effective creation of rating territories based on…
