On March 6th, 2013 the Fitzgerald Analytics team attended the quarterly symposium of the TDWI NYC Tri-State Chapter.  …

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SCTR7 BLOG:  http://sctr7.com/2013/01/04/taming-the-analytics-hydra-with-an-analytics-center-of-excellence-ace/

Taming the analytics hydra with an Analytics Center of Excellence (ACE)

by Scott Mongeau

Managing analytics, organizationally, has the aspect of a hydra, the ancient Greek mythological dragon which Hercules slew.  For each head Hercules dispatched,…

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People like to predict what will happen in future especially in 2012. Nostradamus brought about massive destruction and mayhem thought there was comet in 2012. Even Mayans stopped their calendar on December 21st, 2012. If it’s true, human only has less than a week to live. But do you really convinced by this dire prediction? Is this prediction based on correct analysis? Some people who believe that because they are depressed at some bad phenomenon such war, natural disaster, resource…

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Indian School of Business, one of the premier management institution's in India and rated one among the Top 20 B-Schools in the world for their post graduate programs has collaborated with CrowdANALYTIX to initiate a contest that will help students collaborate with a large community of data scientists on a ideation problem. This is the first in a sequence of 4 including ideation and data mining…

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The Voice is a very successful show that runs in 28 countries around the globe. The basic concept in each version is the same: Four famous singers act as coaches. They have to select a team of vocalists through an audition process. The teams compete internally through a process of competitive elimination, until one vocalist per coach enters the Finals. There, the best vocalist of the four is declared 'The…

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Following to my previous article posted on link: http://emfps.blogspot.com/2012/08/emfps-how-can-we-get-power-set-of-set.html, let me tell you one of the applications of this method in Risk Management.  In this article, I am willing to solve a case in which the template is referred to my article of “EMFPS: Efficient Portfolio of Assets (The Optimization for Risk, Return and…

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We have seen few posts ago an approach to extract meta "concepts" from text based on latent semantic paradigm.

In this post we apply this approach to classify documents, and we do a comparison between this approach and the canonical bag of words.

The comparison test will be done through the ensemble method already showed in the last post.

To read the entire post click …

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Data, metrics and analytics are a hot business topic these days. They’re “hot” because evidence shows that data helps make better decisions.

Data has led to operational efficiencies and cost reduction. “Talent data” is the obvious next focus. Data analysts have approached “talent data” by measuring traditional, easy to gather metrics like attrition, salaries, headcount, training and termination.

The challenge? It’s almost impossible to extract useful business intelligence from…

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Companies collect so much data today and yet when you go looking for it you will often find barriers! So what’s wrong…If we were honest with ourselves, as professionals, we would admit what Rosabeth Moss Kanter suggested in 1979 in a famous Harvard Business Review article: that “Power is Americas last dirty word. It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it; people who want to it do not want to appear to… Continue

Police collab w/ researchers to reduce crime in Cinci. Culture critical: Police must be open to it, researchers need personal skills http://ping.fm/UxfO4

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Interviewed by Infosys for the Industry Speak section of their Technology Roundtable. Topic is "Predictive Analytics: What Makes Enterprises More Competitive?"



Shared a number of real world examples. Read it here & share your thoughts:



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