Tag Archives: data mining

Can analytics predict everything?

Posted on 30 Jan 2012 by Gaurav Vohra

Peter Fader, a quantitative marketing professor from Wharton, believes that companies are unnecessarily complicating the job of making predictions. Simple probability models, often built in excel, can be far more powerful in many cases than complex statistical algorithms. He also …

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Analytics courses becoming more popular

Posted on 22 Aug 2011 by Sarita Digumarti

Interest in analytics education has increased significantly in the past couple of years, with more colleges and universities offering or planning to offer courses in data mining, analytics, and BI. More and more companies are looking for graduates that have …

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Analytics Terminology

Posted on 7 Aug 2011 by Gaurav Vohra

Analytics, Business analytics, Predictive modelling, Advanced analytics, Big Data Analytics, Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, Business Intelligence, OLAP, Reporting, Data warehousing, Statistics There are many terms that get thrown around in the field of analytics. This article …

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Kurt Thearling’s Site on Analytics

Posted on 4 May 2011 by Gaurav Vohra

Kurt Thearling’s website is an excellent place to start off if you want to learn about data mining.Kurt is a veteran in the analytics space with extensive experience in some of the leading analytic companies in the world like Capital …

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Analytics Education

Posted on 2 May 2011 by Gaurav Vohra

In this era of information, analytics has become an integral part of running a business. More and more companies are swearing by the power of data mining and analysis and data-driven insights are complementing experience and intuition when it comes …

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Online Predictive Analytics Competitions

Posted on 26 Apr 2011 by Gaurav Vohra

I recently write about the Heritage analytics competition that has  3 million dollars as prize money. The competition is inspired by the success of previous such competitions held by the online movie store Netflix. In this article we talk about …

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Heritage Analytics Competition

Posted on 18 Apr 2011 by Gaurav Vohra

We recently announced the launch of the Heritage Provider Network’s  $3 million analytics competition. The company has released more details about the competition since then. The competition runs for two years and offers a US $3 million Grand Prize, as …

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Popularity of Analytics

Posted on 11 Apr 2011 by Gaurav Vohra

Analytics is becoming more and more important to businesses. According to Gartner, advanced analytics will be one of the top 10 strategic technologies in 2011. A recent study by Accenture states that companies are increasingly turning to analytics to gain …

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Data Miners Blog

Posted on 17 Mar 2011 by Gaurav Vohra

A place to read about topics of interest to data miners, ask questions of the data mining experts at Data Miners, Inc., and discuss the books of Gordon Linoff and Michael Berry. This blog (http://blog.data-miners.com/)  is written by Michael Berry …

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Blogs on analytics: dataminingblog

Posted on 17 Mar 2011 by Gaurav Vohra

This blog by Sandro Saitta, a Swiss national, covers research issues, recent applications, important events, interviews with leading actors, current trends and book reviews in the field of analytics.

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