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modeling Tag

March 27, 2019

One challenge in building analytical models involves separating signal from noise. Signal describes the patterns we consider “real” in the sense that we believe they reflect a true relationship between the factors we’re analyzing. For instance, if our data indicates that a person’s height is...

February 20, 2019

Models are amazing. Built upon the understanding we gained in type 2 analytics, models provide an amazing tool that we can pass to others. No longer is the understanding locked up in our minds, but it becomes a concrete reality we can use to further...

January 31, 2019

Call me crazy, but I think this whole data thing has legs. At this point, it’s a cliché to say that data is the new oil or that data maturity is vital to the business. Everybody wants to be a data-driven company, but often the...

September 17, 2018

Four years ago, I wrote a blog post speculating about future business intelligence workflow and tools for business information systems that would provide the capabilities of high-priced legacy enterprise business information systems but at a fraction of the cost. Part of that post included a...