Healthcare Analytics Success Story: Making Data Silos Play Nicely Together

Information silos are one of the most common and expensive byproducts of business operations today, resulting from acquisitions, mergers, security needs or just plain mismanagement. Yet…Continue

Started by Vincent Granville Jul 11, 2012.

Big success of Operations Research: HP, IBM, Chevron, Disney, etc. 2 Replies

HP used O.R. solutions to transform its product portfolio management, achieving over $500M in profit improvements across several business units. Disney’s legacy of storytelling gets translated into…Continue

Started by Vincent Granville. Last reply by Vincent Granville Dec 12, 2010.

Twitter followers: strategy used to reduce churn and resume growth 1 Reply

Tons of tools provide Twitter analytics. It looks like a new Twitter Analytics company is born every day. Here we used simple analytics to eliminate a problem with our Twitter followers.Our…Continue

Started by Vincent Granville. Last reply by Tom Wolfer Nov 30, 2010.

Increasing sign ups by 100%

We've increased new members count from 3,500 to 7,000 per year on one of our most popular groups. Here's what we did:Eliminate spam. Better spam detection algorithm.Posting high quality articles, on…Continue

Started by Vincent Granville Feb 27, 2010.

Data Mining Techniques Unearth Major Click Fraud Botnet

Using design of experiments techniques and statistical data mining, I identified a botnet generating more than 10 million dollars in click fraud revenue annually. I discovered and understood the…Continue

Tags: web mining, web analytics, botnet, fraud detection

Started by Vincent Granville Jun 22, 2008.

AutoTrader.com: Bringing e-intelligence to the World's Largest Web-Based Automobile "Super Site"

Traditional brick and mortar companies building e-commerce systems generally start out with a solid base of customer knowledge from previous operations. But e-intelligence offers companies with…Continue

Tags: sas

Started by Vincent Granville Apr 15, 2008.