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April 2008 Blog Posts (7)

San Diego, CA Analytics

Hello Colleagues -
My question to you all is: In your opinion, how viable is San Diego, CA as an analytics hub of companies and talent?

Added by Data Miner with Lasagna on April 26, 2008 at 3:19pm — 2 Comments

Interview with Ajay Ohri, Data Mining Consultant from India

Short Biography

Ajay Ohri has been working in the field of analytics since 2004 , when it was a still nascent emerging Industries in India. He has worked with the top two Indian outsourcers listed on NYSE,and with Citigroup on cross sell analytics where he helped sell an extra 50000 credit cards by cross sell analytics .He was one of the very first independent data mining consultants in India working on analytics products and domestic Indian market…

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Added by Vincent Granville on April 19, 2008 at 9:15pm — No Comments

Applying the Markov copulae approach to modeling credit derivatives

In the latest issue of the Journal of Credit Risk, Bielecki et al. propose a dynamic bottom-up approach by using Markov copula for pricing and hedging credit index derivatives and ratings-triggered corporate step-up bonds.

The Markov copula procedure works efficiently and is a useful step towards developing a copula-like formalism for multivariate processes, which can be applied to the modeling of credit derivatives. Read the full article and receive the current edition of the… Continue

Added by Vincent Granville on April 15, 2008 at 2:55pm — No Comments

Narratives Events and Discourses

That's NED for short - our Strathclyde university improve-our-methodology self-help group.
I like to think it can help both qualitative and quantitatives, but I suspect I'm the only mixed method member!

Added by Dr Stephen Tagg on April 14, 2008 at 9:50am — No Comments

Increasing customer loyalty using data analytics

Loyalty Marketing has become a key strategy for most companies in today's competitive marketplace. The practice is based on a very simple premise - as you develop stronger relationships with your best customers, they will stay with you longer; the longer they stay, the more profitable they become.

It costs less to retain a customer than to acquire a new one. To retain a customer involves many factors - personal relationships, product quality, customer service, price, and other brand… Continue

Added by Vincent Granville on April 6, 2008 at 12:15pm — 3 Comments

Predictive Model Markup Language - PMML

The Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) is a mark up language for statistical and data mining models. Some sort of HTML language to handle statisical tasks such as regression, decision trees etc.

PMML is an XML-based language which provides a way for applications to define statistical and data mining models and to share models between PMML compliant applications.

PMML provides applications a vendor-independent method of defining models so that proprietary issues and… Continue

Added by Vincent Granville on April 5, 2008 at 1:30am — No Comments