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Coming soon – Predictive Analytics World

February 2, 2010

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Predictive Analytics World, February 16-17, 2010 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco is turning into the biggest yet. I am going to be speaking on analytic journeys and giving a workshop on putting predictive analytics to work and there are some great keynotes from Andreas Weigen (ex-amazon.com), Kim Larsen (Charles Schwab) and [...]

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Predictive Analytics World – Early Bird expiring

January 14, 2010

Quick note to let you know that the early bird pricing for Predictive Analytics World expires this week so it’s time to register. You can also use my discount code – SPEAKPAW010 – to get a 15% discount. I am running a workshop the day before (you should be there) and speaking/moderating on the first [...]

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Speaking at Predictive Analytics World 2010

November 21, 2009

[ February 15, 2010 to February 16, 2010. ] The spring Predictive Analytics World 2010 is coming to San Francisco in February and the agenda is now published at PredictiveAnalyticsWorld.com.  I am giving a tutorial (Putting Predictive Analytics to Work) the day before the conference and speaking on the first day (Analytic journeys). If you are interested, use the code SPEAKPAW010 to get a [...]

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SAS customers and fraud detection

October 27, 2009

Another customer panel courtesy of SAS. This one had Rex Pruitt from Premier Bankcard (I blogged about how Premier put predictive analytics to work and Rex presented at Predictive Analytics World), Chris Swecker formerly of the FBI/Bank of America, Cameron Jones SAS’ Chief Compliance Officer and was moderated by Ellen Joyner. Fraud, obviously, is a [...]

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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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Premier Bankcard and building a good customer score #paw

October 20, 2009

Rex Pruitt discussed Premier Bankcard’s development of a good customer score. I have written about how Premier Bankcard is putting predictive analytics to work as I used them in my presentation on putting analytics to work earlier. Job 1 was to define a good customer – find the definitions that the CEO, the CFO, heads [...]

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Know your customers by knowing who they know #paw

October 20, 2009

Tim Manns presented on Optus SingTel’s work using social interactions in analytics. In this case the social network is the people you know based on who you call, and who you don’t call. Optus is part of SinfgTel and is a telco based in Australia that competes with the main telco and has about 35% [...]

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Cost reduction in bill insert campaigns with predictive analytics #paw

October 20, 2009

Stamatis Stefankos gave a presentation on his work with Sunrise Communications to forecast and reduce printing and mailing costs in a CRM context. Sunrise is the #2 telco in Switzerland with mobile and landline customers with 1.7 mobile customers (the majority). They have a typical data infrastructure with a data warehouse that pulls in data [...]

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Putting predictive analytics to work with decision management #paw

October 20, 2009

I presented earlier today on Putting predictive analytics to work in operational systems using decision management. Here are the slides. For more, you can check out my webinar on the top 5 principles of decision management.
Putting Predictive Analytics To Work
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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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Boosting results or reducing costs with lift curves

September 22, 2009

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I have been thinking about lift curves this week (no, really, this is the kind of thing I think about) and I thought it was worth spending a post describing them and their value.
Before I actually talk about a lift curve I need to give you a little background. The purpose of a [...]

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Great interview with layman Netflix Prize leader Martin Chabbert

September 21, 2009

Eric Siegel has a great interview with one of the winners of the Netflix prize – check out the Predictive Analytics World blog -  Casual Rocket Scientists: An Interview with Layman Netflix Prize Leader Martin Chabbert.

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Putting predictive analytics to work at Premier Bankcard

September 21, 2009

I am giving a tutorial and a presentation on putting predictive analytics to work at the forthcoming Predictive Analytics World show in Washington DC (October 20th-21st with tutorials on the 19th). I always like to illustrate my points with real examples and I am going to be talking about Premier Bankcard, a SAS client. As [...]

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5 ways to reduce cost with predictive analytics

September 17, 2009

Earlier this week I attended a local Business Intelligence SIG to hear Eric Siegel speak.  This was essentially a preview of Eric’s keynote presentation at Predictive Analytics World next month on reducing costs with predictive analytics.
Eric is giving a webinar with me as part of the Decision Management Solutions webinar series – Optimizing Business Decisions [...]

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Webinar: Optimizing Business Decisions – How Best to Apply Predictive Analytics

September 17, 2009

[ September 30, 2009; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ] The second webinar in the series, this one on  optimizing business decisions with predictive analytics. Harnessing value with predictive analytics depends on some careful choices: What kind of customer behavior you predict and which operational decisions you automate with it. This webinar will guide you in making these choices, and cover a healthy dose of [...]

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Better customer service, better results with predictive analytics

September 16, 2009

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I recently hosted a webcast for Smart Data Collective titled “Putting Customer Value to Work: What Predictive Analytics Can Do for Your Bottom Line”. With Korhan Yunak of Vodaphone Group, Anne Milley of SAS Institute and Mike Rote of Teradata Corporation on the panel we discussed how predictive analytics can provide [...]

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Two more dimensions of analytic speed

September 15, 2009

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Curt Monash has been Thinking About Analytic Speed over on The Intelligent Enterprise Blog and makes some good points about the different kinds of analytic speed. One area I find lots of confusion in discussions of analytic speed that Curt does not touch on is the difference in time to build an analytic [...]

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Putting predictive analytics to work at Infinity Insurance

September 15, 2009

I am giving a tutorial and a presentation on putting predictive analytics to work at the forthcoming Predictive Analytics World show in Washington DC (October 20th-21st with tutorials on the 19th). I always like to illustrate my points with real examples and while I was preparing the presentation I had a chance to talk to [...]

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Speaking at Predictive Analytics World

August 1, 2009
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[ October 19, 2009 to October 21, 2009. ] I am speaking at Predictive Analytics World. On the 19th I am giving a tutorial on putting predictive analytics to work. This is a whole day tutorial with lots of practical content, plus you get a copy of my book. If you are just coming to the show you can catch a summary of this [...]

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Personalize customer relationships by personalizing decisions

July 28, 2009

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David Vergara wrote a nice piece over on Target Marketing recently – Use effective segmentation with predictive analytics to personalize customer relationships. David does a nice job of outlining the steps involved in a segmentation modeling, a key area for data mining and predictive analytics.
To adopt analytics to personalize customer relationships, however, I [...]

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