Text analytics grew 25 per cent last year, creating a £635mln market, as more and more businesses look to capture customer sentiment as a source of competitive advantage.

Text analytics technology remains young, and there is a general…

I would like to learn AMOS. Kindly help me

ADaBoost.M1 tries to improve step by step the accuracy of the classifier analyzing its behavior on training set. (Of course you cannot try to improve the classifier working with the test set!!).

Here lays the problem, because if we choose as "weak algorithm" an SVM, we know that almost always it returns excellent accuracy on the training set with results closed to 100% (in term of true positive).

In this scenario, try to improve the accuracy of classifier assigning different weights…

The complaint is also about the fact that Microsoft, located in Redmond, Washington, can't find local candidates and has to hire candidates from out-of-state (and I guess, from out-of-country), to fill big data, IT, data scientist and engineering positions. There was a long article today in the Seattle Times about how terrible Washington State is - according to Brad Smith - in terms of educating its citizens.…

By CANDICE CHOI  - The Associated Press. Source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/avantgo/2017309601.html

Companies are getting smarter at predicting your next move.…

By Derrick Harris Jan. 28, 2012, 3:00pm PT. Big data is hot, but infrastructure-level platforms such as Hadoop, which focus on storage and processing, still need help to…

The June 2008 issue of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis covered an analysis of Excel 2007. These faults and errors are being reviewed for inclusion.

Section 20 has been rewritten with new material based on errors pointed out by Paulo Tanimoto.…

Copula Dependence Structure on Stock Market with Application to Risk

Shaoxuan Guan

Department of Mathematical Statistics

CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF…

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- FICO (NYSE:FICO - News), the leading provider of analytics and decision management technology, announced today that William J. Lansing, a 30-year veteran in the technology industry and a current member of the FICO board of directors, has been appointed chief executive officer of FICO, effective January 27, 2012. 

Mr. Lansing succeeds Dr.…

At North Carolina State, an advanced analytics program lasting 10 months has, since its founding in 2006, placed over 90 percent of its students annually. The average graduate’s starting salary for an entry-level job is $73,000. Its current class of 40 students had 185 applicants, and next year’s applications are already twice that. In 2009, Harvard awarded four undergraduate degrees in statistics. Two graduates…

Primary Duties

• Lead analytics team to develop attribution and forecasting models, ad-hoc analysis, test structures, recommendations and media mix analysis
• Continually seek new and better ways to leverage data to optimize campaign results
• Become an expert in all aspects of data models, data elements and data environments for analytical planning.
• Produce ad hoc analysis as necessary to aid team in budget management, user demographics…

Another recent article from Discovery Corps, Inc. president Tim Graettinger:   Grab Bag 2:  More Frequently-Asked Questions about Data Mining.  

"While helping present a monthly webinar on Data Mining, I'm asked some challenging and really pivotal questions about DM and predictive analytics:  

1. How much data do I need? 
2. Why doesn't my predictive model perform as well on new data as it did on the training data?
3. Are new DM algorithms needed to…

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I am graduate in computer science. Done Java certification. I like programming and currently as part of job profile, I do VBA programming. I also completed Base SAS & BI courses. I have confusion about which course should I do next either Business analytic or Data integration studio. I had taken BA as part of my courses (Base , advanced,BI & BA) to learn but later I thought that as I don't have any stats background it would be second…

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Traditional religions have existed for more than a thousand years, and are usually based on a system of illogical, incompatible dogmas, which can't be modified without killing the whole concept. This is especially true for more conservative flavors such as integrism.

One of the concepts that has resisted time, in many religions, is God: it is traditionally presented as good guy (except that He is bad with those believing in the wrong religion), personified as an old,…

When you do a book search on Amazon using keywords, in the search result page you see 16 results. If you've bought one (or more) of these books, it still shows up on the search result page. It would be easy to eliminate that book that you already purchased (e.g. by showing it at the bottom of the page), and replacing it by another book that you haven't purchased yet. Sounds to me like an obvious, simple optimization trick. Maybe Amazon's statisticians use very complex models that change…

Interesting blog post by SmartAnalytics

Content:

• Big Data, Little Data
• Big Data Use Cases
• E-tailing – E-Commerce – Online Retailing Use Cases (Interesting Use Case – Amazon Will Pay Shoppers $5 to Walk Out of Stores Empty-Handed)
• Retail/Consumer Use Cases
• Financial Services Use Cases (example: Trade Surveillance Use Case)
• Web & Digital Media Services Use Cases
• Government Use…

The crisis in the socio-economic continuum of modern civilization - as a historic challenge to a qualitatively new role of socio-technologies for the expansion of consumption and market diversification is not so much a real possibility - but there is a historical inevitability ... .

Modern civilization has undoubtedly in many respects, the main product of the market economy and market relations. And the social foundations of the…

StatSoft announced its STATISTICA  has achieved certified integration with the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform. STATISTICA, StatSoft’s flagship analytics software platform, works with SAP NetWeaver®  for data exchange.

Tulsa, OK – January 19, 2012 - StatSoft announced that its STATISTICA release has achieved certified integration with the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform.  STATISTICA, StatSoft’s flagship analytics software platform, works with…