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Text Mining examples with John Elder #pawcon

February 16, 2010

John Elder, one of my favorite presenters, introduced a series of customer stories around text mining/text analytics. He calls this "the wild west" of analytics with lots of startups and innovation. He points out that these kinds of analytics must be designed to complement human capabilities, not least because the human brain is good at [...]

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Some interesting SAS-Teradata news

October 27, 2009

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I am spending some time with SAS this week and I was struck by a couple of announcements related to the ongoing SAS/Teradata partnership. First, the two companies have partnered with Elder Research to create a Business Analytics Innovation Center. This will both pilot new analytics (something at which John and his team [...]

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The high ROI of data mining for innovative organizations #paw

October 20, 2009

I presented today at Predictive Analytics World (I will post slides later) and John Elder, one of my favorite data mining presenters, gave a great session on the ROI of data mining. John started by giving me a great plug and then pointed out that one of the reasons data mining has survived as an [...]

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Top 10 mistakes on data mining – on YouTube!

July 10, 2009

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John Elder of Elder Research is well known in data mining circles and speaks/teaches regularly. Not only has John recently released a new book (Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications), he has now released his great seminar on the top 10 mistakes in data mining on YouTube! Highly recommended for anyone [...]

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The High ROI of Data Mining for Innovative Organizations

February 19, 2009

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John Elder presented a collection of case studies to showcase the ROI of data mining. John started by making the point that many of his case studies had technical success but not business success – an interesting statistic. John sees three major ways that predictive analytics can help – streamlining, eliminating [...]

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Live from Business Rules Forum (almost) – Top 10 Data Dangers When Discovering Business Rules

October 26, 2007

John Elder was next. John is a well-known data mining expert who runs Elder Research Inc. John was presenting on Top 10 Data Dangers When Discovering Business Rules. John’s focus was on data mining and other analytics techniques and he presented his top 10 mistakes:

Lack DataFor instance fraud cases can be so rare in a [...]

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