Having been an early supporter of PAW, I am happy to see this conference flourish. It was a pleasure to see so many friends and colleagues who are such an enthusiastic and loyal part of this community of hands-on practitioners. Eric Siegel, Program Chair, kicked it off with the hot
Tag: Interactive Data Mining
Gordon Linoff has been a self-starter in many ways. To name a few, he, along with Michael Berry, founded Data Miners Inc. in 1998. Gordon was also one of the first experts who SAS looked to in the 1990s to start the ever-popular SAS Business Knowledge Series. He has consulted for a wide
When building models to predict a binary outcome variable, such as respond or not respond, the proportion in the desired category (respond) may be low. For example, in direct mail campaigns the response rate is often 1% or lower. In such cases, a predictive model is likely to learn how
As data volumes continue to grow, analysts, business users and students must rely on increasingly sophisticated techniques to extract meaningful, actionable information from their data. JMP is proof that they won’t have to sacrifice ease of use for predictive power: With JMP, popular data mining and forecasting tools are accessible
If you missed my live SAS TALKS webinar on June 23 titled Consider an Analytic Center of Excellence (and Other Ways to Create More Analytic Bandwidth), you can now watch it on demand. In addition, the slides I presented are now available to any who are interested in Analytic Centers
Systems engineer Mary Loveless and I have been barraged with requests to repeat her May 26 live Mastering JMP webcast on risk analysis. Rather than wait until schedules and advertising for a new webcast converge, I divided her demo into three sections for you to watch whenever you want. In
Kaiser Fung is a statistician with more than a decade of experience in applying statistical methods to unlocking the relationship between marketing and customer behaviors. He leads a team of statisticians at Sirius XM Radio responsible for gaining insight into customers and operational best practices. You may know him from
The editor of the KD Nuggets newsletter, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Ph.D., has attracted quite a number of subscribers over the years with a variety of interesting news items, polls and topics. It's hard to believe he is now posting the 12th annual poll on Data Mining / Analytic Tools Used. Despite
I walked it into the British Museum one morning last week, eager to begin this special day for JMP. An Explorers seminar would take place here soon, and we would show delegates from a range of industries the latest incarnation of JMP: JMP Pro. And this, with the blessing of
Wow! Attendance is up to more than 500 at Predictive Analytics World (PAW) — and Predictive Analytics Summit, a new predictive analytics conference, was just held in San Diego a few weeks ago. Such growing interest in predictive analytics (a topic that is really all about value creation) is great