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Fall webinar series
30 Aug 2010 at 6:59pm
I just scheduled and announced four new webinars for this fall: Simplifying over-complex processes Delivering customer centricity across multiple channels, multiple platforms Implementing anal...

Gathering BI/DW requirements
24 Aug 2010 at 4:46pm
There was a great article this week over on the Requirements Network - Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence Requirements Elicitation. Where do You Begin? I really liked the fact that early in th...

More on decisions and decision management
28 Jul 2010 at 11:30pm
I recently wrote an article for the IIA on decisions, decision management and analytics. This was prompted by Tom Davenport's recent interview on the Sloan Business Review on Reengineering your dec...

Data integration and keeping the decision in mind
28 Jul 2010 at 7:55pm
Some time ago I was at a warranty conference and there was an interesting discussion about registration cards. You know, those postcard sized mailers you are asked to return to register your produc...

New data mining competition
6 Jul 2010 at 2:46pm
IEEE ICDM Contest: Road Traffic Prediction for Intelligent GPS Navigation Over the last century, the number of cars engaged in vehicular traffic in cities has increased rapidly, causing many diff...

Operational Analytics resarch available
6 May 2010 at 11:52pm
I have been working on some research with the BeyeNETWORK and we are pleased to announce the release of "Operational Analytics: Putting Analytics to Work in Operational Systems". The basic premise...

It's Rexer Analytics survey time
26 Apr 2010 at 7:52pm
Rexer Analytics, a data mining consulting firm, is conducting their fourth annual survey of the analytic behaviors, views and preferences of data mining professionals. This is a really interesting...

Now that's cute - data mining on an iPad
20 Apr 2010 at 1:44am
Karl Rexer just sent me this link - Oracle Data Mining on iPad - and I have to say it is pretty cute. I recently got a demo of the new Oracle Data Mining capabilities and will post a quick summary ...

Telemetry means little without analytics
6 Apr 2010 at 2:10am
CNet had a nice story about UPS that caught my eye - UPS turns data analysis into big savings. What was interesting about this to me was not just the use of telemetry (which is interesting enough),...

An Overview of Data Mining Techniques
1 Apr 2010 at 1:38am
I was doing some research the other day and found (re-found really) Kurt Thearling's page of Data Mining Techniques. I had forgotten how useful this was and thought I should re-post it for those of...

New Rexer Analytics Survey
26 Mar 2010 at 9:03pm
I recently got the survey results from the annual data mining survey that Karl Rexer of Rexer Analytics runs. You can get the summary here or the full results from Karl but here are my thoughts: Da...

Stephen Few on the problem with BI
19 Mar 2010 at 9:37pm
In a recent post, Big BI is Stuck: Illustrated by SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, Stephen Few took issue with the claims of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer. I have not spent any time with the product s...

Predictive analytics - some tips
5 Mar 2010 at 1:16am
In a great post on 8 things to keep in mind on predictive analytics, some folks from Diamond Management & Technology laid out some things to keep in mind that I really liked. Here they are with my ...

In-database analytics - a white paper
23 Feb 2010 at 3:05pm
My co-author on Smart (Enough) Systems, Neil Raden, has written a great white paper on in-database analytics that is available from Sybase - Analytics from the start. This paper introduces the key ...

First Look - Quantivo
11 Feb 2010 at 12:23am
I got a briefing from Quantivo recently. This is a company focused on behavioral analytics - uncovering patterns within the mountains of customer data that companies have - web analytics and point ...



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