Kaggle, a data-prediction company, is inviting numerati the world over to mine a small set of data and predict patterns…
I've been enjoying exploring this New York Times chart on Netflix rentals, zip code by zip code. The top rental…
I just got back from the half-day Forum on Analytics in San Diego, and included a keynote by Wayne Peacock…
Text analytics may be the next wave of computer analysis. In contrast to quantitative analytics, text analytics broadens mining raw…
In my last post on predictive modeling (4 August 2009) I used the recent announcement that the Netflix Prize appears…
Steve Lohr reported in The New York Times on July 28 that two teams appear to have tied for the…
Think marketing doesn’t have much to do with mathematics? Mathematics is giving some companies a competitive edge in better understanding…
Movie rental by mail (and now by streaming video) company Netflix has been celebrated for its disruptive business model. Woe…
The above diagram was compiled by Florence Nightingale, who was – according to The Font – “a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of…
At a time in our history when there is more data than ever before, the overwhelming majority of companies ...
Money Out the Window It’s scary to think about the dollars involved, but with over 70% of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing projects failing it is surprising…
I always make the point that data is everywhere – and that a lot of it is free.
The internet and ecommerce world offers endless possibilities to use customer analytics and big data ..
