•1. Predictive Analytics Applied to the Hospital Billing Process http://bit.ly/gpX9ak  …

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Nick Wilson

Credit Management Research Centre

Leeds University Business School

 

Mike Wright

Centre for Management Buy-out Research

Nottingham University Business School

 

Ali Altanlar

Centre for Credit Management Research

Leeds University Business School

 

This draft May 19th, 2010

 

Abstract

We study the determinants of failure, defined as entering the bankruptcy process, in a unique dataset comprising the…

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Is Patience a Virtue?

The Unsentimental Case for the Long View in Evaluating Returns

David L. Donoho, Robert A. Crenian, and Matthew H. Scanlan

Renaissance

 

Are investors too impatient with their underperforming managers? Would they benefit from a longer time horizon in making manager hiring and firing decisions? Or, on the contrary, are they too patient? We observe that decision makers – plan CIOs, investment committees, and staff are becoming less…

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We are looking for digital analytics people to further the growth of our analytics practice, and I wanted to reach out to you to see if you would be interested or know of someone who is.



The Media Innovation Group (MIG) is a technology driven digital marketing solutions company that enables agencies and advertisers to capture audience intelligence, optimize their interactions with consumers and drive results. We are looking for Analytics professionals who are ready to come in and work… Continue

k-nearest neighbours is part of supervised learning that has been used in many applications in the field of data mining, statistical pattern recognition, image processing and many others. Some successful

applications are including recognition of handwriting, classifying the nearest

segment for customers etc.…

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Is there something wrong with the scientific method? - by Jonah Lehrer



On September 18, 2007, a few dozen neuroscientists, psychiatrists, and drug-company executives gathered in a hotel conference room in Brussels to hear some startling news. It had to do with a class of drugs known as atypical or second-generation antipsychotics, which came…

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By Pablo Triana -- Published: November 29 2010 00:00 | Last updated: November 29 2010 00:00



Imagine a car school that specialised in teaching how to build Toyotas. Following the manufacturer’s recall of thousands of malfunctioning vehicles, should the school rethink its curriculum or should it trot along unperturbed, delivering the same lectures as before, as if nothing had happened?



A similar conundrum is faced today by those universities that offer graduate programmes in… Continue

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Significance is a new journal published jointly by the American Statistical Association and The Royal Statistical Society. One recent article (  http://www.nr.com/whp/Significance_ToCatchATerrorist.pdf ) discusses why over-sampling people with high-risk profiles, at airport check points for instance, does not work.

I think this article is very controversial, and the statistical explanations are flawed. The…

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Simply put by one of its staunchest advocates, “R is the most powerful statistical computing language on the planet; there is no statistical equation that cannot be calculated in R.”



Beyond “just” a language, R is a toolset, a community, and a lot of free software.



“Everyone can, with open source R,” Norman Nie says in Quentin Hardy’s article, “afford to know exactly the value of their house, their automobile,” their current business and prospects. Nie has built a… Continue

Starting in February, a group of very bold hedge fund managers are launching a multi-million dollar hedge fund whose strategy relies on one very unusual market indicator: your Twitter account.



London-based hedge fund Derwent Capital Markets said it had successfully marketed a new venture to a series of high-net worth clients that makes investment choices using information gathered from over 100 million daily tweets.



Simply put: the fund mines the Twitter-verse to gauge… Continue

DMSIG – On Diversity, Complexity, and Regularization in Ensemble Models, January 24, 2011

LOCATION:…

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If you have a data mining problem that you would like to share or organize a challenge for your friends or studets, you may do this for free on TunedIT website. You may use it as a more creative method of working on a project, to evaluate progress of your students or as a way of  proving who is right in a bet :)

To launch a competition, please follow the link: http://tunedit.org/data-competitions.

 

Considering the number of target customer selection projects I do, Direct Mails appear to be a very popular communication and marketing channel amongst retailers.

Almost all the time, I use a combination of RFM, Decision Tree or Logistic Regression techniques for sorting, profiling and/or scoring customers (hopefully, I can post a separate detailed…

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December 6, 2010 in Business Intelligence (BI), Information Applications (IA), Information Management (IM), IT Performance Management (ITPM), Operational Performance Management (OPM) | Tags: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Enterprise Software, HP, HP Neoview | by Mark Smith

No one has seemed to notice that in the last several months, Hewlett-Packard has quietly made changes to its participation in the enterprise software market; this will significantly change HP’s value… Continue

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How often does your organization need to develop a supply plan that has to bypass regular routines and systems? Sometimes these actions need to be performed urgently, without waiting for well established regular processes which allow for the necessary inputs, processing of data, and configuration of output overnight. What if your planning cycle is not daily, but weekly, or even monthly and the job has to be done right away?

We offer a quantitative technique which lets the supply…

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