After reading the first chapters of Reactive Business Intelligence, I was suprised: what a clear way of presenting complex topics! I thus decided to ask a few question to one of the author, Roberto Battiti. To know more about their excellent book,
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Data Mining Research (DMR): Who are you and what is your background?
Roberto Battiti (RB): I…
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After reading the excellent book
Analytics at Work, I went back in time to read the first book of Davenport and Harris. Competing on Analytics, The New Science of Winning is written for data miners and analytical people as well as for decision makers who are interested in analytics to drive their business. While Analytics at Work concerns any…
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One of the problem data miners are often confronted is how to present statistics to the general audience. It can be the public, other researchers, decision makers, etc. This issue is discussed in a recent article in Decision Science News entitled "Some ideas on communicating risks to the general public". The article discusses issues when sharing probabilities, conditional probabilities, risks, frequencies, etc. with the public.
The author provides excellent examples to…
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I recently read an interesting article from Analytics Magazine entitled "Managing fundamental tradeoffs" by Mu Zhu. This article is interesting since it explains what prevent easy automation of data mining tools. According to the author:
"Algorithms used to uncover such a relationship – for example, neural networks and support vector machines – must be sufficiently flexible. This is because only flexible algorithms can be adapted to the vastly different situations that…
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