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The Hidden Biases in Big Data

In February this year, Kate Crawford, principal researcher at  Microsoft Research New England, delivered a talk at the Strata Conference, entitled Algorithmic Illusions: Hidden Biases of Big Data. Her talk focused on the subjectivity of…

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Added by Jigsaw Academy on April 16, 2013 at 12:32am — 1 Comment

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Added by soniya on April 15, 2013 at 5:06am — No Comments

How Well Do You Know Spreadsheets?

Spreadsheets are one of the most popular software for data manipulation. They are widely used and welcomed by business users with their superior advantages on the flexibility for data processing and presenting as well as reporting functions. Especially, spreadsheets are easy to use and can visualize data computing and analysis, which greatly increase convenience and…
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Added by Jessica Qiu on April 9, 2013 at 12:09am — No Comments

Predicting Lying and Predicting Dying

Who benefits by predicting your behavior? Organizations do—companies, governments, hospitals, and political campaigns. They employ predictive analytics, technology that learns from data to render per-person predictions, one individual at a time.

 

People have been struck by the final words in the title of my new book on this subject, Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die (…

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Added by Eric Siegel on April 4, 2013 at 1:53pm — No Comments

esCalc Makes You a Smarter Retailer

The common analytics in retail industry include analysis for finance, market, commodities, customers, vendors, and salesman. The retail data analytics gives a summary on top performers, bottom performers, key value items, sales performance, forecasting, trend and seasonality. Retailers need to make  strategies based on the result of data…

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Added by Jim King on March 25, 2013 at 2:59am — No Comments

WSJ: HP Piloted Program to Predict Which Workers Would Quit

Joel Schectman at the Wall Street Journal wrote about a story broken in my new book, Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die.

 

Wall Street Journal Article:

Book: HP Piloted Program to Predict Which Workers Would Quit

 

Joel Schectman, Wall Street Journal

 

Hewlett Packard Co. tested a predictive scoring system that attempted…

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Added by Eric Siegel on March 20, 2013 at 2:19pm — No Comments

A Strong Helper Is Available When Excel Sucks

For many years until today, MS Excel is the most popular spreadsheet software in the world. It’s undeniable that Excel is a very powerful spreadsheet in almost every aspect. With intuitive interface, outstanding computation ability and excellent chart tools, Excel is liked by many people and used in all industries, enterprises in any size and any workspace environment. What a flexible and powerful tool! When it comes to complex computing tasks which are difficult to conduct with common…
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Added by Jessica Qiu on March 19, 2013 at 9:24pm — No Comments

Get a Standalone Alternative for Excel at $0

A standalone alternative for Excel on complex data computing, esCalc, will be offered for free to participants who write reviews or share their application cases (The application cases could be the usage of esCalc in a task or a function introduction of esCalc.), according to the announcement of Raqsoft. This campaign starts from March 6, 2013 and will end at May 6, 2013.



Participants will get various licenses of esCalc through different forms of participation, showing as…

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Added by Jessica Qiu on March 4, 2013 at 11:53pm — 4 Comments

Applying Data Analysis Techniques to Solve Big Data Challenges

A recent article entitled "Nate Silver on big data's future: It's about attitude" appeared on fcw.com (The Business of Federal Technology).   The full article along with the points made below can be read here:

http://www.scoop.it/t/big-data-technology-applications-and-analytics

In the meantime, what came to mind has to do with different analytic approaches being used together to solve a…

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Added by Tony Agresta on February 26, 2013 at 1:22pm — No Comments

The Future of Prediction: Predictive Analytics in 2020

What's next is what's next… Predictive analytics is where business intelligence is going.

— Rick Whiting, InformationWeek



Ten Predictions for the First Hour of 2020



Good morning. It's January 2, 2020, the first workday of the year. As you drive to the office, the only thing predictive analytics doesn't do for you is steer the car (yet that's coming soon as well).



1. Anti-theft. As you enter your car, a predictive model establishes your…

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Added by Eric Siegel on February 26, 2013 at 9:34am — No Comments

Truth behind Ticket Purchasing Rush: Statistical Analysis Works

Getting train tickets is always very difficult during holiday, especially in Spring Festival, the most important Chinese holiday for family reunions. The transport peak spans from Jan. 26, 2013 to March 6. During this period, buying tickets at railway station or from the official website of MOR (China’s Ministry of Railways) or through phones seem to become an extravagant expectation. What are the reasons? How to take effective measures?…



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Added by Jessica Qiu on February 21, 2013 at 1:51am — 1 Comment

Introduction to Analytics - Continued

The first session of our introductory course consists of an Overview of Analytics.

As part of our 6 video lecture series on Overview of Analytics, we recently shared the first 3 videos in a previous article. In the following videos, we have covered the Analytics Tools topics.…

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Added by Jigsaw Academy on February 18, 2013 at 11:13pm — No Comments

The Obama Camp Persuaded Millions of Voters with Uplift Modeling

The Fiscal Times is running an excerpt from my book, Predictive Analytics, about the Obama campaign's use of uplift modeling (aka net lift or persuasion modeling).



ARTICLE: The Real Story Behind Obama's Election Victory 

By Eric Siegel 



Elections hang by a thinner thread than you think.



By now you probably know that Barack Obama's 2012 campaign for a second term "moneyballed" the…

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Added by Eric Siegel on February 14, 2013 at 9:30am — No Comments

Introduction to Analytics

The first session of our introductory course consists of an Overview of Analytics. We recently created a 6 video lecture series on Overview of Analytics. Here are the first 3 videos from this series.

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Added by Jigsaw Academy on February 11, 2013 at 5:02am — No Comments

Read the Preface for Siegel’s Book – Predictive Analytics

Read the Preface for Siegel’s Book – Predictive Analytics



Here is the preface for Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die



By Eric Siegel, with a foreword from Tom Davenport

(Wiley, February 2013)

 

To order the book:…

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Added by Eric Siegel on February 8, 2013 at 6:30am — No Comments

Who Unchained the Django of Business Computing Field?

The computing in business activities involves enterprise reporting (Reporting), business data integration and cleaning (Data Integration and ETL), OLAP (Online Analysis Process), ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer…

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Added by Jim King on January 30, 2013 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Social Network Analysis specialists Idiro Technologies land major deal with multinational telco Digicel

IDIRO TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES DEAL WITH GLOBAL SERVICE PROVIDER DIGICEL TO PROVIDE MARKETING ANALYTICS…

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Added by Simon Rees on January 23, 2013 at 6:27am — No Comments

What Makes Self-service Statistical Computing Tools So Important?

Worldwide IT spending will continue to grow in 2013 according to Forrester research and self-service computing and analytics is one driver for the growth. Self-service statistical computing tools are also a top trend of business intelligence in 2013 based on some predictions. Data from various aspects show that self-service statistical computing and analytics tools are in growing need. Even some big companies shifted their…
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Added by Jessica Qiu on January 22, 2013 at 8:04pm — No Comments

Giving Big Data Publishing the Royal Treatment

A NoSQL database from MarkLogic provides the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) with the ability to unlock a treasure trove of assets.  Now the RSC can publish three times as many journals and four times as many articles. It also gave the Society the ability to develop new educational applications to make chemistry accessible to a wider audience.

Modern approaches to information products replete with full text search have the power to…

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Added by Tony Agresta on January 18, 2013 at 7:58am — No Comments

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