Originally posted on Puff the Mutant Dragon:
Back in the 1940s before the polio vaccine was invented, the disease caused a lot of anxiety among parents of small children. How could you reduce your child’s risk of contracting this nasty illness? Some misguided public health experts apparently recommended avoiding ice cream, thanks to a study…
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February 23, 2015
Free Big Data Analytics Handbook
Originally posted on Data Science 101:
Brian Liou from Leada was kind enough to provide a guest post about their latest handbook, The Data Analytics Handbook: Big Data Edition. Data Analytics Handbook Have you ever wondered what the deal was behind all the hype of “big data”? Well, so did we. In 2014, data science hit…
February 6, 2015
Fighting Fraud and Cyber Threats with the power of Network Analytics
New blog post published for Deloitte – view original post: Both fraudsters and cyber attackers take advantage of an increasingly interconnected world to infiltrate and assault financial and virtual infrastructures. Especially sophisticated electronic interactions bind people together in complex, global networks. While such networks have created new opportunities for interaction and commerce, they have also […]
January 13, 2015
Reblog: How to use phone calls and network analysis to identify criminals
An excellent, hands-on demonstration of the power of social network analysis (SNA) via graph analytics to detect criminality from colleagues at Linkurious and a U.S.-based police detective: http://linkurio.us/how-to-use-phone-calls-and-network-analysis-to-identify-criminals/ SNA at times can seem too theoretical to stakeholders – this is an excellent example of a hands-on, engineering focused application with real practical value. Applies Neo4J graph […]
January 1, 2015
HBR: The Discipline of Business Experimentation
Link to Harvard Business Review article on experimentation and analytics in business settings https://hbr.org/2014/12/the-discipline-of-business-experimentation Soon after Ron Johnson left Apple to become the CEO of J.C. Penney, in 2011, his team implemented a bold plan that eliminated coupons and clearance racks, filled stores with branded boutiques, and used technology to eliminate cashiers, cash registers, and […]
December 17, 2014
The Janus Imperative: Bridging Business Silos via Analytics
Analytics professionals should keep a persistent eye open for opportunities to create cross-functional insights from data. Insights can frequently be leveraged across multiple business domains. However, business silos can restrict ‘forest for the trees’ visibility. To the degree analytics has cross-functional exposure in the organization, for instance via a C-level champion and an Analytics Center […]
October 13, 2014
Do You Know Who Owns Analytics at Your Company?
Article observing the centralizing tendency of analytics and the corresponding need for a cross-functional perspective.
October 12, 2014
How AIG Moved Toward Evidence-Based Decision Making
Post on AIG’s adoption of evidence based decision making: data analytics depends upon organizational management of decisions, which is influenced by decision culture and processes.
October 10, 2014
Anti money laundering (AML): the network graph analytics approach
The fight against fraud and AML often hits a ‘brick wall’ when encountering labyrinthian international, corporate structures. Even well-known brands such as Google and Starbucks, use controversial, though currently accepted, international structures to optimize capital flows and to reduce tax liabilities, for instance the so-called Double Irish or Dutch Sandwich. Due to this complexity, increasingly […]
October 7, 2014
Manager-machine: analytics, artificial intelligence, and the uncertain future of management
As many traditional industrial age business functions become subject to disintermediation by automation and expert analytics systems, new industries and value propositions will need to be framed by an emerging generation of leaders.
February 23, 2015
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