What’s the Difference? – A Social Media Monitoring Strategy that Analyzes Intentions Instead of Mentions
At CI we talk a lot about analyzing consumer intentions, extracting consumer expressions of preference with regards to products, viewing…
Predictive Analytics Q & A with Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro
With this week’s Predictive Analytics World Conference (#pawcon) now in full-force, we brought in an industry expert – Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro of KDNu
Big Data Blasphemy: Why Sample?
Since data mining began to take hold in the late nineties, “sampling” has become a dirty word in some circles.…
New Report on Decision Management Technologies – The Four Capabilities
As regular readers know, we have released the first version of our Decision Management Systems Platform Technology report. The core…
Update on the 6 March 2012 Government Big Data Forum
With this post I provide an update on the 6 March 2012 Government Big Data Forum, sponsored by Carahsoft.
Predictive Policing with Big Data
Police Departments nationwide have been using data and statistics to drive policing since the 90s in an approach founded by…
The Uncanny Valley of Big Data
Three articles in recent weeks have touched on an important issue related to Big Data and predictive analytics: sometimes, the…
Better than Brute Force: Big Data Analytics Tips
Long before I encountered the term “Big Data,” questions about dealing with large datasets were a routine part of my…
Target, Pregnancy, and Predictive Analytics – Part I
There have been a plethora of tweets about the New York Times article "How Companies Learn Your Secrets", mostly focused…
First Look – FICO Model Central
FICO Model Central is the latest addition to FICO’s Decision Management platform and is focused on lifecycle management of predictive…
