Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Three Ways to Get Your Predictive Models Deployed

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We all know that given reasonable data, a good predictive modeler can build a model that works well and helps make makes ...
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Friday, January 04, 2013

Top Posts in 2012

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For the second consecutive year, a quick look back at posts from the prior year. For posted in 2012, in order of popularity: Target, Pre...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

6 Reasons You Hired the Wrong Data Miner

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As is in any discipline, talent within data mining community varies greatly.  Generally, business people and others who hire and manage tech...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Why Predictive Modelers Should be Suspicious of Statistical Tests (or why the Redskin Rule fools us)

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Well, the danger is really not the statistical test per se , it the interpretation of the statistical test. Yesterday I tweeted (@deanabb)...
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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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