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10 analytic jobs that can performed remotely (from your home office)

Some of them require very serious skills to succeed, or being well known, and income is volatile. Feel free to add other jobs to my list.

  1. Independent statistical consultant (some travel involved)
  2. Statistical programmer…
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Added by Titus on November 16, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Popularity of keyword "analytics" started to explode in 2005, now it beats "cloud computing" (see charts below)

Source: Google Keyword Tool


Scale is based on the average worldwide traffic of analytics in all…
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Added by Vincent Granville on November 16, 2010 at 2:17pm — 2 Comments

Yahoo to pay 400,000 people to create news articles

Targeted, high quality news are now aggregated and produced semi-automatically. Can someone shed some light on how such a decision could make sense, from a business viewpoint? At the end of the day, advertisers pay for the content, will they be happy with this Yahoo solution?



The article below was published on… Continue

Added by Vincent Granville on November 15, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

IEEE ICDM Winning Solutions - check how top results were achieved

For all those who participated or followed the IEEE ICDM Contest: TomTom Traffic Prediction for Intelligent GPS Navigation and are interested in how the top solutions were reached -… Continue

Added by magdalena pancewicz on November 10, 2010 at 6:55am — No Comments

Analysis of extremely large data sets and unstructured data sets

Dr. Ingo Mierswa is giving a talk together with Dr. Dimitre Leonidov of Ingres about new challenges related to the analysis of extremely large data sets and unstructured data sets. They will show the current state of the RapidMiner / RapidAnalytics integration with Ingres VectorWise. I am sure that many of you already know VectorWise - at least the visitors of the RCOMM 2010 got already a first impresssion about how fast and scalable data analysis becomes with this… Continue

Added by Vincent Granville on November 9, 2010 at 1:42pm — No Comments

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Added by Vincent Granville on November 5, 2010 at 7:42pm — No Comments

How voters turned out on Facebook

By Facebook Data Team…
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Added by Amy on November 5, 2010 at 7:03pm — No Comments

Highlights of 2010 Data Miner Survey Results (735 participants)

dms.pdf : Attached are a few slides that show the highlights of the 2010 Data Miner Survey Results (4th annual survey). Last week I presented these slides, unveiling this year's results, in DC at the Predictive Analytics World conference.


Over the next few weeks we will finish writing the full report, and we'll distribute it in November.…
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Added by Vincent Granville on November 1, 2010 at 10:00pm — 2 Comments

The most analytic states

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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Added by Vincent Granville on October 31, 2010 at 10:38am — No Comments

Rapid Insight Inc. Places in Top Three in Direct Marketing Association 2010 Analytic Challenge

Conway, NH (PRWEB) October 22, 2010…

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Added by Vincent Granville on October 28, 2010 at 7:23pm — No Comments

As IBM Accelerates Analytics Business, Can Anyone Keep Up?

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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Added by Vincent Granville on October 26, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

eHarmony's algorithm of love

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Added by Vincent Granville on October 26, 2010 at 3:59pm — No Comments

Digg Faces Accusations Of Gaming Itself: Data Mining Used to Unearth Usage of Fake Profiles

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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Added by Vincent Granville on October 26, 2010 at 2:23pm — No Comments

The Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics

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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Added by Vincent Granville on October 25, 2010 at 10:11pm — No Comments

Logistic regression.

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

Added by Minethedata on October 18, 2010 at 9:17am — 18 Comments

Automated news feed optimization: a new opportunity for analytics professionals, with huge growth potential

  • 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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Added by Vincent Granville on October 19, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Predixion and Zementis partner to accelerate widespread adoption, use and reuse of predictive analytics models

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

Added by Vincent Granville on October 19, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

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