According to AnalyticBridge web traffic statistics. An index above 100 means "above average". Below 100 means "below average". The index is the 2nd column.

State   Uniques IndexConnecticut     145

Massachusetts   143


New York        132


California      126


Maryland        107


Washington      104


Pennsylvania    98


District of Columbia    98


North Carolina  97


Minnesota       97


Delaware        93


Illinois       …

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Conway, NH (PRWEB) October 22, 2010…

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IBM has put analytics at the heart of its corporate strategy and is leveraging its entire $100-billion business to drive the "smarter" solutions that analytics animate.…



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The darkest fears of every Digger (or, as is increasingly common, former Digger) may be coming true: some very compelling data mining by a concerned user has…

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This Gallery of Data Visualization displays some examples of the Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics, with the view that the contrast may be useful, inform current practice, and provide some pointers to both historical and current work. We go from what is arguably…

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• Billions of dollars are poured each year into online advertising programs (display and pay-per-click advertising)
• Ads are displayed on websites that attract lots of visitors.
• Web sites attracting visitors do so because they have great content.…

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ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Oct 19, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Predixion Software today introduced Predixion PMML Connexion(TM), an interface that provides Predixion Insight(TM), the company's low-cost, self-service in the cloud predictive analytics solution, direct and seamless access to SAS, SPSS (IBM) and other predictive models for use by Predixion Insight customers. Predixion PMML Connexion enables companies to leverage their significant investments in legacy predictive analytics solutions at a… Continue

can we find out which variables are important for carrying out logisitc regression before carrying out logistic regression?

Ron Fredericks writes: The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Machine Learning / Data Mining Camp event had a full house. The video presented here attempts to capture both the content and the excitement surrounding this event:
http://www.lecturemaker.com/2010/03/acm-data-mining-camp/

SAS Institute has joined the “Change the Equation” educational initiative announced last week by President Barack Obama, the Cary-based maker of business analytics software announced Wednesday.



SAS is among dozens of organizations that will work with the White House on ways to improve science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, education.



“As a high tech company, SAS depends on a strong educational system for its long-term success,” said SAS CEO Jim Goodnight.… Continue

A few weeks ago it was revealed that Google and the CIA—two organizations whose job it is to know what’s going on in the present—are working together to learn what will happen in the future. Through their respective investment arms—Google Ventures and In-Q-Tel—the geeks and the spooks each took a stake in a little-known Cambridge, Mass., company called Recorded Future, which bills itself as “the world’s first temporal analytics engine.” By scanning websites, news stories, blogs and Twitter… Continue

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By Liz Pulliam Weston -- Money Talk



Dear Liz: I'm going to owe nearly $40,000 in student loans when I graduate in the spring with an associate's degree in political science with paralegal studies as my major. I'm attending an online university. Is this debt worth it, and is the school I'm attending credible enough for employment? I'm very worried.



Answer: You should be. You've borrowed a small fortune to get a two-year degree that would have cost about $5,000 at your local… Continue

By EILEEN AJ CONNELLY

The Associated Press

Monday, September 27, 2010; 6:19 PM

NEW YORK -- Have you been working to boost your credit score before trying to get a mortgage? It may not yield the payback you expect.



The mortgage loan interest rates offered to borrowers with stellar FICO scores aren't much lower than the rates offered to those with a middle-of-the-road 720 score these days.



That means that efforts to drive up a credit score to lofty heights… Continue

In my last article, we examined the shadow inventory to determine how many distressed properties (not on MLS) were almost certain to be forced onto the market in the not-to-distant future.



For a sensible follow up, let's take an in-depth look at so-called "strategic defaults" to see how many homeowners are likely to "walk away" from their mortgage debt although they might be financially able to continue paying it.



Strategic Default Defined



According to… Continue