Predicting purchases: With predictive analytics software, companies can see which customers are most likely to buy a given product. The process begins by ranking customers according to how recently they purchased, how frequently they buy, and how much money they spend.
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22 Predictive Analytics Applications That Were Proven Very Effective in 2010 (by Claude Penland)
Added by Richard on December 31, 2010 at 11:46am — No Comments
Private Equity, Buy-outs, Leverage and Failure
Nick Wilson
Credit Management Research Centre
Leeds University Business School
Mike Wright
Centre for Management Buy-out Research
Nottingham University Business School
Ali Altanlar
Centre for Credit Management Research
Leeds University Business School
This draft May 19th, 2010
Abstract
We study the determinants of failure, defined as entering the bankruptcy process, in a unique dataset comprising the…
Added by John A Morrison on December 31, 2010 at 12:24am — No Comments
The Unsentimental Case for the Long View in Evaluating Returns
Is Patience a Virtue?
The Unsentimental Case for the Long View in Evaluating Returns
David L. Donoho, Robert A. Crenian, and Matthew H. Scanlan
Renaissance
Are investors too impatient with their underperforming managers? Would they benefit from a longer time horizon in making manager hiring and firing decisions? Or, on the contrary, are they too patient? We observe that decision makers – plan CIOs, investment committees, and staff are becoming less…
ContinueAdded by John A Morrison on December 30, 2010 at 11:25pm — No Comments
Manager, Advanced Analytics
We are looking for digital analytics people to further the growth of our analytics practice, and I wanted to reach out to you to see if you would be interested or know of someone who is.
The Media Innovation Group (MIG) is a technology driven digital marketing solutions company that enables agencies and advertisers to capture audience intelligence, optimize their interactions with consumers and drive results. We are looking for Analytics professionals who are ready to come in and work… Continue
The Media Innovation Group (MIG) is a technology driven digital marketing solutions company that enables agencies and advertisers to capture audience intelligence, optimize their interactions with consumers and drive results. We are looking for Analytics professionals who are ready to come in and work… Continue
Added by Molly Mackey on December 30, 2010 at 11:00am — 1 Comment
A useful classification technique - k-nearest neighbours
k-nearest neighbours is part of supervised learning that has been used in many applications in the field of data mining, statistical pattern recognition, image processing and many others. Some successful
applications are including recognition of handwriting, classifying the nearest
segment for customers etc.…
Added by Anjanita Das on December 30, 2010 at 7:30am — 1 Comment
The Truth Wears Off
Is there something wrong with the scientific method? - by Jonah Lehrer
On September 18, 2007, a few dozen neuroscientists, psychiatrists, and drug-company executives gathered in a hotel conference room in Brussels to hear some startling news. It had to do with a class of drugs known as atypical or second-generation antipsychotics, which came…
Added by DataLLigence on December 30, 2010 at 3:00am — 1 Comment
Popularity of keyword "analytics" growing exponentially, topping by far "cloud computing"
Added by Vincent Granville on December 29, 2010 at 7:46pm — 1 Comment
The flawed maths of financial models (Financial Times)
By Pablo Triana -- Published: November 29 2010 00:00 | Last updated: November 29 2010 00:00
Imagine a car school that specialised in teaching how to build Toyotas. Following the manufacturer’s recall of thousands of malfunctioning vehicles, should the school rethink its curriculum or should it trot along unperturbed, delivering the same lectures as before, as if nothing had happened?
A similar conundrum is faced today by those universities that offer graduate programmes in… Continue
Imagine a car school that specialised in teaching how to build Toyotas. Following the manufacturer’s recall of thousands of malfunctioning vehicles, should the school rethink its curriculum or should it trot along unperturbed, delivering the same lectures as before, as if nothing had happened?
A similar conundrum is faced today by those universities that offer graduate programmes in… Continue
Added by Richard on December 28, 2010 at 5:30pm — No Comments
The Rise of Analytics
Added by Mirko Krivanek on December 28, 2010 at 11:45am — No Comments
To catch a terrorist: can ethnic profiling work? -- Rebuttal to article published in Significance
Significance is a new journal published jointly by the American Statistical Association and The Royal Statistical Society. One recent article ( http://www.nr.com/whp/Significance_ToCatchATerrorist.pdf ) discusses why over-sampling people with high-risk profiles, at airport check points for instance, does not work.
I think this article is very controversial, and the statistical explanations are flawed. The…
ContinueAdded by Mirko Krivanek on December 28, 2010 at 11:25am — No Comments
Names You Need to Know in 2011: R Data Analysis Software (from Forbes blog)
Simply put by one of its staunchest advocates, “R is the most powerful statistical computing language on the planet; there is no statistical equation that cannot be calculated in R.”
Beyond “just” a language, R is a toolset, a community, and a lot of free software.
“Everyone can, with open source R,” Norman Nie says in Quentin Hardy’s article, “afford to know exactly the value of their house, their automobile,” their current business and prospects. Nie has built a… Continue
Beyond “just” a language, R is a toolset, a community, and a lot of free software.
“Everyone can, with open source R,” Norman Nie says in Quentin Hardy’s article, “afford to know exactly the value of their house, their automobile,” their current business and prospects. Nie has built a… Continue
Added by Vincent Granville on December 24, 2010 at 2:07pm — No Comments
Your Tweets Could be Worth Millions, as Data Mining Algorithms Analyze them to Predict the Stock Market
Starting in February, a group of very bold hedge fund managers are launching a multi-million dollar hedge fund whose strategy relies on one very unusual market indicator: your Twitter account.
London-based hedge fund Derwent Capital Markets said it had successfully marketed a new venture to a series of high-net worth clients that makes investment choices using information gathered from over 100 million daily tweets.
Simply put: the fund mines the Twitter-verse to gauge… Continue
London-based hedge fund Derwent Capital Markets said it had successfully marketed a new venture to a series of high-net worth clients that makes investment choices using information gathered from over 100 million daily tweets.
Simply put: the fund mines the Twitter-verse to gauge… Continue
Added by Vincent Granville on December 23, 2010 at 11:09am — 9 Comments
SF Bay Area ACM: DM SIG – On Diversity, Complexity, and Regularization in Ensemble Models, January 24, 2011
DMSIG – On Diversity, Complexity, and Regularization in Ensemble Models, January 24, 2011
LOCATION:…
ContinueAdded by Vera Klimkovsky on December 22, 2010 at 10:02pm — No Comments
any ideas for data mining contest?
If you have a data mining problem that you would like to share or organize a challenge for your friends or studets, you may do this for free on TunedIT website. You may use it as a more creative method of working on a project, to evaluate progress of your students or as a way of proving who is right in a bet :)
To launch a competition, please follow the link: http://tunedit.org/data-competitions.
Added by magdalena pancewicz on December 20, 2010 at 7:57am — No Comments
AnalyticsCamp 2011 in Chapel Hill, March 12
AnalyticsCamp is a BarCamp-style unconference for all analytics specialties. The event returns to UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School in Chapel Hill, NC on March 12. It's a free event, and all are encouraged to join us and present something you find interesting.…
ContinueAdded by Nathan Gilliatt on December 17, 2010 at 10:51am — No Comments
What's behind your Tree?
Considering the number of target customer selection projects I do, Direct Mails appear to be a very popular communication and marketing channel amongst retailers.
Almost all the time, I use a combination of RFM, Decision Tree or Logistic Regression techniques for sorting, profiling and/or scoring customers (hopefully, I can post a separate detailed…
ContinueAdded by DataLLigence on December 17, 2010 at 12:18am — No Comments
What Will Your Customers Buy Next? (Source: Cindy Waxer, MIT Technology Review)
What Will Your Customers Buy Next?
Using sophisticated math and vast amounts of data,…
Added by Vincent Granville on December 15, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments
HP Gives Up on Business Intelligence and Analytics Markets
December 6, 2010 in Business Intelligence (BI), Information Applications (IA), Information Management (IM), IT Performance Management (ITPM), Operational Performance Management (OPM) | Tags: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Enterprise Software, HP, HP Neoview | by Mark Smith
No one has seemed to notice that in the last several months, Hewlett-Packard has quietly made changes to its participation in the enterprise software market; this will significantly change HP’s value… Continue
No one has seemed to notice that in the last several months, Hewlett-Packard has quietly made changes to its participation in the enterprise software market; this will significantly change HP’s value… Continue
Added by Vincent Granville on December 14, 2010 at 2:21pm — No Comments
Never say never!
Added by Jang Woo Park on December 14, 2010 at 12:03am — No Comments
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