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…
First Look – Causata
Causata is a software company founded in early 2009 with a heritage from the online space – behavioral targeting on…
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…
Want to Disprove a CEO’s Wishful Thinking? Use Analytics.
How often have you heard executives proclaim that next year the target for financial results will be a substantial lift…
“Big Data” Is Coming, “Big Data” Is Coming:
What Does It Mean To Analytic Professionals?For my first blog posting, I decided to focus on one of the hottest…
First Look – Oracle Data Mining Update
I got an update from Oracle on Oracle Data Mining (ODM) recently. ODM is an in-database data mining and predictive…
Yet another ‘Wisdom of Crowds’ success
I was at the Federal Building downtown San Diego for a consulting job, and met some representatives for a life…
Leading Companies to Share Case Studies at PAW NYC October 16-21
Predictive Analytics World NYC Highlights Download the conference preview guide for an in-depth look at the PAW's all-star speaker line up…
First Look – Modern Analytics
Modern Analytics was founded in 2001 by a team that originally met building analytical capabilities for a major European bank.…
Newsflash: Correlation is Not a Cause!
Just about every data scientist and statistician knows that correlation doesn’t necessarily confirm causation. However, popular business and social literature…

