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• in Business
  Analytics Will Flatten the Competitive World of Business
  How crowdsourcing, cloud computing and open source software can revolutionize the landscape of business analytics.
  by bdeshpan / on Feb 19, 2012
• in Business
  Blind Faith in Predictive (or any) Analytics is Dangerous
  Can we blindly trust all models simply because the math behind them is highly sophisticated? No! Behind every successful model lurks a few dangerous assumptions. If the assumptions are violated, the model is just conjecture.
  by bdeshpan / on Feb 10, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “predictive analytics”

 

• Alteryx raises $12M to make predictive analytics user-friendly

  
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  Alteryx , an Irvine, Calif.-based startup trying to be a hybrid of Tableau and statistical analysis software like SAS or R, raised $12 million in an extended Series A round. Newcomer firm Toba Capital led the round, with existing investor SAP Capital also contributing. President and COO George Mathew says the ...
  4 days ago

• First Look: FICO Decision Optimizer

  
  JT on EDM — Authority: 137
  Copyright © 2013 http://jtonedm.com James Taylor Decision optimizer is one of FICO’s Decision Management Tools and is designed to address some specific challenges in customer decisioning, particularly that there are often competing objectives and very large numbers of customers (and thus customer decisions) ...
  5 days ago

• The Case for Risk Analytics in Banking

  
  Trends and Outliers - TIBCO Spotfire's Business Intelligence Software Blog — Authority: 132
  As regional and international banks emerge from the 2008 financial crisis, many institutions are continuing a strong focus on risk management to ensure that they’re complying with more stringent regulations and are loaning and investing cash wisely. Risk concerns continue to be top-of-mind for bankers. ...
  5 days ago

• Using Decision Management to improve call centers

  
  JT on EDM — Authority: 137
  Copyright © 2013 http://jtonedm.com James Taylor I was struck over the weekend by this article on the BBC website -  Call centre menu options catalogued by frustrated man . Essentially this guy has been documenting call center menus. As the article says “He started the project after growing frustrated about ...
  5 days ago

• Decision Management and In-Memory Technology

  
  JT on EDM — Authority: 137
  Copyright © 2013 http://jtonedm.com James Taylor In-memory databases and in-memory analytics are interesting technologies when it comes to Decision Management Systems. Memory is thousands of times faster than disk and the amount of memory on a node is increasing rapidly. Putting data is put in memory and executing ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘Big data’ can predict weather up to 40 days into the future

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 161
  The weather is an unforeseeable, ungovernable force and EarthRisk is using big data to predict it. EarthRisk Technologies has developed a new model for predicting extreme weather events. The model identifies weather patterns based on over 82 billion calculations and 60 years of data. It then compares those ...
  2 weeks ago

• Desire2Learns New Learning Suite Aims To Predict Success, Change How Students Navigate Their Academic Career

  
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  Desire2Learn is a 10-plus year old Canadian company that makes learning software — a learning management system to be precise — and here’s why, in spite of that description, it shouldn’t bore you to sleep. In a space that’s traditionally been controlled by bigs like Blackboard and Moodle, Desire2Learn has ...
  2 weeks ago

• First Look: SAP Real-Time Offer Management

  
  JT on EDM — Authority: 137
  Copyright © 2013 http://jtonedm.com James Taylor As part of the ongoing blog series on Marketing Decision Management Solutions I got an update from SAP on Real-Time Offer Management. This is based on an acquisition made at the end of 2006 of a real time recommendation technology developed for the CRM market, with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Trevor Hastie presents glmnet: lasso and elastic-net regularization in R

  
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  by Joseph Rickert Even a casual glance at the R Community Calendar shows an impressive amount of R user group activity throughout the world: 45 events in April and 31 scheduled so far for May. New groups formed last month in Knoxville, Tennessee (The Knoxville R User Group: KRUG ) and Sheffield in the UK (The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Predictive Analytics World goes to Chicago

  
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  Message from our Sponsors and my favorite Analytics conference ( only if I could attend a cool analytics conference nearby in Asia (singapore/turkey?)  -sighs) Even useR wont come to Asia ever?- This is the number 1 conference for analytics in the world and it is next month in Chicago, USA? So you think you have the ...
  2 weeks ago

• NetTrax: You’re leaving cookie crumbs on the net … lots of them

  
  The Homa Files — Authority: 140
  What happens when you click to a web site? Short answer: you have new cookies installed on your computer or have old cookies modified  … whether you know it or not … and  you then spew crumbs all over the Internet … letting companies track you, profile you, and hard sell you stuff. Here’s a visual of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Predictive Publishing (Or How I Stay Off the Couch)

  
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  We’ve all said things that have come off the wrong way. It’s one of the shortcomings of the English language. So many words in English are open to interpretation, and leaving things open to interpretation around my house can sometimes mean I wake up on the couch. Whatever it was I said, or failed to say, can take ...
  2 weeks ago

• Explaining real-time predictive analytics with big data (video)

  
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  In my presentation to the Strata Santa Clara 2013 conference earlier this year, my goal was to give a succinct (under 20 minutes!) explanation of three terms that are two often used as mere buzzwords: predictive analytics , real time , and big data .   You can download the slides for my presentation, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pssst: What’s your zip code?

  
  The Homa Files — Authority: 140
  Ever wonder why the gun-chewing cashier asks you for your zip code? I naively assumed the store was just doing some kind of geo-survey … trying to figure out where their customers were coming from … how far they were driving to shop their store. Silly boy. CNN reports that ”Every time you mindlessly ...
  2 weeks ago

• Extending RevoScaleR for Mining Big Data - Naive Bayes

  
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  by Derek McCrae Norton, Senior Sales Engineer In this third installment (following part 1 and part 2 ) of Extending RevoScaleR for Mining Big Data we look at how to use the building blocks provided by RevoScaleR to create a Naive Bayes model. Motivation: Fit a Naive Bayes model to big data. Naive Bayes ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nums: Is predictive analytics winning battles, not wars?

  
  The Homa Files — Authority: 140
  Peggy Noonan has a piece in the WSJ today that I almost skipped. You know, another  “Is Obama a Lame Duck?” piece. Buried in the column was a riff about predictive analytics that caught my eye. It pointed out one of the downsides of  predictive analytics … the craft  of crunching big data bases to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Decisions in the cloud #ficoworld

  
  JT on EDM — Authority: 137
  Copyright © 2013 http://jtonedm.com James Taylor Last session for me at FICO World is SulAmerica (part of ING) talking about their work with FICO moving decision management applications to the cloud. Cloud is clearly a growth area for businesses, with much of companies’ IT  investment being pushed to the cloud. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Exploring SAP HANA – Powering Next Generation Analytics

  
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  SAP HANA , having entered the data 2.0/3.0 space at the right time, has been getting traction lately; and there will be lot of users like me who wants to[...]
  3 weeks ago

• The Era of Intimate Customer Decisioning #ficoworld

  
  JT on EDM — Authority: 137
  Copyright © 2013 http://jtonedm.com James Taylor Next session for me at FICO World is one focused on where customer decisioning is going. John Rymer of Forrester began by presenting some of the major trends found in a recent Forrester survey conducted for FICO : Customer modeling is getting much more ...
  3 weeks ago

• Customer Intimacy and the 3rd Platform #ficoworld

  
  JT on EDM — Authority: 137
  Copyright © 2013 http://jtonedm.com James Taylor Stuart Wells, the CTO of FICO, came up to give the keynote and talk about FICO’s big cloud announcements: FICO Cloud-based Decision Management Platform (announcement here ) FICO Analytic Cloud (announcement here  and sign up here ) Customer engagement ...
  3 weeks ago

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