"Looks like you use a software rather than an hardware solution to fix a problem with an instrument (to boost resolution). Interesting and new approach, much lest costly than an hardware fix."
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Can we use data science to measure distances to stars?
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What is machine data?
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Time to "Trusted" Insight - Are we talking enough about accuracy in the age of Big Data Analytics?
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To sample or not to sample, what do you think?
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Stories about analytic professionals who left data sciences
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INFORMS newsletter - January 2012
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Why are Amazon e-book not viewable using a standard browser?
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Our Data Science e-book is now available on Amazon
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News from the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative
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Monetizing data
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Insightful podcast on social media analytics
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Why you should stay away from the stock market - unless you read this article
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Speed Up Data Analysis by Replacing SQL Coding with Rapid Visual Design
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How do your quantify data as large, big, or huge?
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Jean-Paul Rasson replied to Vincent Granville's discussion Can we use data science to measure distances to stars?
Vincent Granville replied to Vincent Granville's discussion Can we use data science to measure distances to stars?
"Could a similar methodology be used to detect very rare occurrences of fraud (occurring say one in 100,000 transactions), by magnifying the imperceptible signal, just as used in the distance-to-star problem?"
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Can we use data science to measure distances to stars?
This is a very challenging problem, that even as of today, is still very challenging. For the closest few hundred stars (and the focus on the discussion is on those close stars exclusively), the methodology to measure the distance is based on parallax measurements. You measure the angle to the star using 2 other reference points (the sun being one of them), and six months later, when you have traveled 300 million kilometers in the sky and are just opposite to the sun, you measure the angle…See More
Vincent Granville commented on Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro's blog post What Analytics, Data Mining, Big Data Software you used?
"I did not see Lavastorm, Matlab, Informatica nor AIMMS."
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- Dr. Vincent Granville is a visionary data scientist with 15 years of data mining, big data, text mining, predictive modeling, business analytics, quantitative analysis and digital analytics experience. Vincent is widely recognized as the leading expert in scoring technology, fraud detection and web traffic optimization. Over the last ten years, he has worked in real-time credit card fraud detection with Visa, advertising mix optimization with CNET, A/B testing with LowerMyBills, online user experience with Wells Fargo, search intelligence with InfoSpace, automated bidding with eBay, data mining with Microsoft, click fraud detection with major search engines and large advertising clients, as well as statistical litigation.
Vincent was formerly Chief Science Officer at Authenticlick. Most recently, he successfully launched AnalyticBridge, the largest social network for analytic professionals, with 45,000 subscribers. Vincent is a former post-doctorate of Cambridge University and the National Institute of Statistical Sciences. He was among the finalists at the Wharton School Business Plan Competition and at the Belgian Mathematical Olympiads. Vincent has published 40 papers in statistical journals and is an invited speaker at international conferences. He also developed a new data mining technology known as hidden decision trees, owns multiple patents, published the first data science book, and raised $6MM in start-up funding.
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US Training for RapidMiner and RapidAnalytics - http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/us-training-for-rapidminer-and-rapidanalytics…
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 5:30pm
12 selected AnalyticBridge and DataScienceCentral articles from the last 5 days
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- Four different ways to solve a data science problem - case study…
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Email marketing: analytic tips to boost performance by 300% - case study
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Comment Wall (69 comments)
- At 2:29pm on May 8, 2012,
Martin Oluba said… Can you help me with name(s) and contact(s) of US analytic firms with expertise in (a) fraud and criminal intelligence analytics (b) behavioural advertising that would like to sell their technologies and expertise to our (Nigerian firm. This is top priority to our firm
- At 11:04am on May 5, 2012,
Brad Morantz said… Thank you for the invite, glad to be aboard a great group.
brad
- At 9:55am on May 24, 2011,
Ayush Biyani said… - Hi Vincent..left a message for interest in elite technologies..any updates ?
- At 12:57pm on May 4, 2011,
Edith Ohri said… Hello Vincent,
The send nessage in does not function on my PC - Win2010.
Any advice how to fix that?
Thanks,
Edith
- At 9:51am on March 22, 2010,
Tomas Keller (formerly Ohlson) said… - Hi Vincent,
thanks for a great forum!
Is it possible to bookmark forum entries, blog posts etc?
Tomas
- At 12:04am on February 14, 2010,
Vasanth said… - hey vincent...... what online stuff can help me on text related analytic s?
- At 4:34pm on November 30, 2009,
Avi A said… - The question was whether you can detect the click fraud from the server log file. In the article, you provided a log file.
I can't find the question (I downloaded the log file but can't find it either).
- At 3:44pm on November 30, 2009, Avi A said…
- Hi, did you publish an answer to the click fraud question?
- At 11:50pm on November 15, 2009,
Gene Leynes said… - I like the headquarters pictures!
- At 11:27pm on October 5, 2009,
Sérgio Paulo Padua Pires said… - Thanks for following me on twitter.
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