Applied Data Science and
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Tips, tricks, and comments related to topics in data science and machine learning. Used to be called "data mining and predictive analytics" but updated the title to reflect the language of the day!
Hosted by Dean Abbott, Abbott Analytics

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-...
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