Josh and I have both posted about the Netflix Prize…drawn to both the idea of creating a very accurate preference/choice models with a very large menu of outcomes, as well as the crowd-sourced approach to solving the problem (and there was in fact a …
Mark Egge, a very sharp prospect researcher and data-miner, in addition to being my favorite classical saxophonist, posted a response to my CRISP-DM post. It only took about two years but we have an actual interwebs dialog on data-mining!I know Josh po…
The Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining–the time honored road map for building data-mining, evaluation and deployment, and ultimately building a self-sustaining cycle of new information, new insight and new analysis. As a construct it is b…
If you are into analytics or even basic statistics Andrew Gelman is a guy you should be aware of. He has some similarities to Steven Levitt of Freakenomics fame (both award winning professors under the age of 40) but Gelman is more focused on sta…
Building on the sports-related theme of our last post, I thought several of you may be interested in the attached article. While Fans of “Moneyball” are familiar with the use of analytics to build a baseball team, we’re now seeing NBA teams employ sim…
I think a fantasy football draft is a “prediction/planning experience” most people can relate to and understand. This is a wonderful article for sharing with colleagues who may not have a solid understanding of predictive analytics. This article does a…