Whether you are a shopper, a voter or a blogger, you will find a chapter in The Numerati that will be of interest to you. Stephen Baker has done an excellent job in explaining what companies can do with their data. For getting knowledge from these data, companies use mathematicians and computer scientists (what Baker calls…
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Recently, I was reading the EPFL magazine and was surprised to see an article where they interviewed my master thesis adviser,
Francois Fleuret. He explained data mining and gave an example about our project.
The goal of my master project was to predict the pollen concentration in the air for the following days. For that, we used different kinds of weather data (temperature, wind, sun, rain…
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While reading September issue of WIRED, I found an interesting article about recommendation. Caterina Fake, also co-founder of Flickr, is chief product officer of Hunch, a social search engine, which goal is to personalize the internet. For this, Hunch build a profile of your tastes and preferences and use these to make recommendations.
Here is an excerpt of the "About" section of Hunch:
"After getting to know you by asking you some…
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At FinScore, we have recently made a new flyer for our new product
FinWEB - Customer Online Targeting:
We have also updated our logo and the
FinScore website. Hope you like them!…
It was last Thursday in Baden, close to Zurich (Switzerland). More than 200 SAS-interested people participated. As last year, FinScore had a stand where we presented the company and its business (data quality, data mining, reporting). We put a particular focus on our new product FinWEB Customer Online Targeting since it is SAS-based.
The were several presentations…
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It was last Thursday in Baden, close to Zurich (Switzerland). More than 200 SAS-interested people participated. As last year, FinScore had a stand where we presented the company and its business (data quality, data mining, reporting). We put a particular focus on our new product FinWEB Customer Online Targeting since it is SAS-based.
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