Thursday, January 05, 2012

Top 5 Posts from 2011

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By far, the most visited post of 2011 was the " What Do Data Miners Need to Learn " post from June. The top five visited posts t...
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Models Behaving Badly

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I just read a fascinating book review in the Wall Street Journal Physics Envy: Models Behaving Badly . The author of the book, Emanuel Derma...
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Friday, November 04, 2011

Statistical Rules Of Thumb, part III: Always Visualize the Data

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As I perused Statistical Rules of Thumb again, as I do from time to time, I came across this gem. (note: I live in CA, so get no money from...
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Friday, July 29, 2011

Yet another "Wisdom of Crowds" success

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I was at the Federal Building downtown San Diego for a consulting job, and met some representatives for a life and disability insurance comp...
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Monday, June 13, 2011

What do Data Miners Need to Learn?

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I've been asked by several folks recently what they need to learn to succeed in data mining and predictive analytics. This is a differen...
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Thursday, May 05, 2011

Number of Hidden Layer Neurons to Use

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In the linkedin.com Artificial Neural Networks group, a question arose about how many hidden neurons one should choose. I've never foun...
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Monday, April 25, 2011

Statistical Rules of Thumb, part II

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A while back, Will Dwinnell posted on two books, one of which is one of my favorites as well: Will mentioned a few general topics covered...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Rexer Analytics data mining survey

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Rexer Analytics, a data mining consulting firm, is conducting their 5th annual survey of the analytic behaviors, views and preferences of da...
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Monday, April 11, 2011

Predictive Models are not Statistical Models — JT on EDM

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This post was first posted on Predictive Models are not Statistical Models — JT on EDM My friend and colleague James Taylor asked me last ...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Analyzing the Results of Analysis

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Sometimes, the output of analytical tools can be voluminous and complicated. Making sense of it sometimes requires, well, analysis. Follow...
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