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Eight reasons not to be insured
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Ian Morton commented on Mirko Krivanek's blog post Strategy for building a “good” predictive model
"Mirko, Thanks for your post. In relation to your additions "deployment, maintenance at the end, and gathering requirements, understanding goal and success metrics at the top". Yes, you are of course correct. I see your additions as…"
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Strategy for building a “good” predictive model

By Ian Morton. Ian worked in credit risk for big banks for a number of years. He learnt about how to (and how not to) build “good” statistical models in the form of scorecards using the SAS Language.Read original post and similar articles here. I thing Ian's list below is a good starting point. I would add a few steps such as deployment, maintenance at the end, and…See More
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Mirko Krivanek commented on Theophano Mitsa's blog post Use PRESS, not R squared to judge predictive power of regression
"The ability to predict the future performance, rather than goodness of fit on existing data, is a great advantage. This can be achieved using cross-validation, which your method does in some way, through the leaving-one-out procedure. It would be…"
May 13
Vincent Granville replied to Mirko Krivanek's discussion Map of Data Science University Programs in the group Analytics Courses
"Click here for Gill Press list of programs on WhatsBigData."
May 13
Michael Goldberg replied to Mirko Krivanek's discussion Map of Data Science University Programs in the group Analytics Courses
"Thanks for posting this. We are following this closely at Data Informed and have created an interactive map with many of these programs and others. We also continue to update our map. See: Big Data University Map.  Michael Goldberg"
May 13
Greg Dolniak replied to Mirko Krivanek's discussion Map of Data Science University Programs in the group Analytics Courses
"As I'm aware, University of Washington is online :http://www.pce.uw.edu/default.aspx"
May 10
Vincent Granville replied to Mirko Krivanek's discussion Data Science University Programs in the group Analytics Courses
"They did not include the MIT, programs in Europe, online programs like coursera or our data science apprenticeship."
May 8
Yi-Chun Tsai replied to Mirko Krivanek's discussion Data Science University Programs in the group Analytics Courses
"Which of these programs are online? "
May 7

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Strategy for building a “good” predictive model

By Ian Morton. Ian worked in credit risk for big banks for a number of years. He learnt about how to (and how not to) build “good” statistical models in the form of scorecards using the SAS Language.

Read original post and similar articles…

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Posted on May 15, 2013 at 10:00pm — 1 Comment

Stat models to solve astronomical mysteries - application to business data

If you look at the picture below (Pleiades constellation), you will see - with the naked eye - that many star systems appear to be binary: that is, involving two (or more) stars orbiting around each other.

Is this a coincidence, or can we prove that from a statistical point of view, based on the theory of stochastic point…

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Posted on April 4, 2013 at 9:30pm — 1 Comment

Invented by a data scientist: the first anti-scam

By anti-scam, I mean a scam where the victim makes more money by participating in the scam.

This scam works as follows:

  • You send money to the data scientist - AKA the scammer - and he purchases lottery tickets with…
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Posted on March 28, 2013 at 9:30pm — 9 Comments

KDNuggets' report on data science graduate programs.

Read the original KDNuggets' report on data science graduate programs. The text below is an extract.…

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Posted on February 18, 2013 at 7:00pm

Shopper Alert: Price May Drop for You Alone | NewYorkTimes

When your grocery store bill is based on your profile...or another way for retail companies to optimize ROI via customized pricing (something all consultants, merchants and sales people have been doing for thousands of years, so it's not really new stuff)

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Posted on August 13, 2012 at 4:00pm — 9 Comments

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At 5:26pm on May 31, 2010, Randy Bartlett said…
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I have not heard back from you. I hope that you did not find my comment offensive.

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