First time attending Text Analytics Summit here in Boston and expectations (though high) were exceeded. Despite a late train and missing Conference Chair, Seth Grime's pre-conference workshop yesterday, it was good to see Nick Patience's workshop on vendor selection and do a little pre-conference networking. Since I am CT-based, it
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Last week, I had the great pleasure of hearing Dan Ariely, behavioral economist and author of the excellent book, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, speak at a seminar in Toronto. This seminar was part of a series from Richard Ivey School of Business and SAS Canada:
The second day of Predictive Analytics World was every bit as good as the first. Attendance was much greater than expected - yes, we are in the era of analytics! The talk from Sun Microsystems was about reaching both customers who had more time than money as well as customers
It's great to see so many in attendance for the first-ever Predictive Analytics World. I've heard a lot of interesting talks already (too bad some are in parallel making choices hard). A recap and highlights of the talks I was able to hear and the conversations I had during breakouts
This morning, as I was writing this blog post at the kitchen table, my 5-year old daughter ran into the room from watching “Sesame Street.” She excitedly announced, “Mommy, the letter of the day is R!” Too true. The recent NY Times story on the R programming language, which included
Doug Henschen, Intelligent Enterprise Editor-in-Chief, in a recent blog post, provides his usual insightful analysis of the market as he cuts through the dizzying spin of IBM exec Ambuj Goyal. The general manager of IBM’s information management division questions the value of business analytics in an interview with Intelligent Enterprise.