Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Data Preparation: Know Your Records!

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Data preparation in data mining and predictive analytics (dare I also say Data Science?) rightfully focuses on how the fields in ones data s...
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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Budgeting Time on a Modeling Project

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Within the time allotted for any empirical modeling project, the analyst must decide how to allocate time for various aspects of the process...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

What do we call what we do?

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I've called myself a data miner for about 15 years, and the field I was a part of as Data Mining (DM). Before then, I referred to what I...
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Friday, August 31, 2012

Choose Your Target Carefully

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Every so often, an article or survey will appear stressing the importance of data preparation as an early step in the process of data mining...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2012

The Data is Free and Computing is Cheap, but Imagination is Dear

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Recently published research, What Makes Paris Look like Paris? , attempts to classify images of street scenes according to their city of ori...
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Monday, July 30, 2012

Predicting Crime

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Applying inferential statistics to criminology is not new, but it appears that the market has been maturing.  See, for instance, a recent ar...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Where it began: John Elder and Dean Abbott at Barron Associates

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I came across this photo today and couldn't resist. John Elder and I worked at the company Barron Associates, Inc. (BAI) in Charlotte...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Predictive Analytics World Had the Target Story First

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The New York Times Magazine article " How Companies Learn Your Secrets " by Charles Duhigg with the key descriptions of Target, pr...
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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Another Wisdom of Crowds Prediction Win at eMetrics / Predictive Analytics World

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This past week at Predictive Analytics World / Toronto (PAW) has been a great time for connecting with thought leaders and practitioners in...
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Monday, April 09, 2012

Dilbert, Database marketing and spam

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Ruben's comment that referred to spam reminded me of an old Dilbert comic which conveys the misconception about database marketing (e-...