Predictive Analytics Spotlight from IBM
Deepak Advani kicked off day 2. SPSS was acquired by IBM in 2009 and, like all acquisitions, has to report…
Information Availability: Exploiting the Full Value of Information to Drive Business
Year after year, analyst survey results show that CIOs view their top priority to be aligning with business strategy and…
Big Data and the New Face of Commerce
Here's a simple task, let's say you have an antique that you want to sell on eBay and you need…
Data Mining Interview: Guillaume Main
Guillaume Main is the creator of Statosphère, one of the most famous blog about statistics in France. He accepted to…
Risk and Five Sigma Events – Can They Happen to You?
Perhaps it’s a sense of optimism wired into humans (or conversely delusion), but when business managers think of worst case…
Predictive Analytics World New York City Conference Announces Speaker Line-Up
New York City, NY – Predictive Analytics World, the business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners, today…
Why Medians May Not be the Message – for Talent Data
I was reading a piece in the Journal this morning on a scientific debate regarding an Alzheimer’s study. The debate…
Experts, Fortune-tellers and Bookmakers: Zero Points!
If you ever doubted the quality of “expert opinions” and the predictive value of the odds of bookmakers, this year’s…
Measuring the Strong Signal of the Customer’s Voice
SDC interviewed Claude Guay - CEO of iPerceptions - and Duff Anderson, iPerceptions’ VP of research - about their approach…
Prescriptive Analytics – A Step Beyond Predictive Analytics
If it seems like ages ago that you began using descriptive analytics, and you’ve already mastered the data mining, pattern…
