That is what I will be speaking about when I give a keynote talk a the Predictive Analytics World conference on Monday, September 30th in Boston.For one thing, data has always been big. Big is a relative concept and data has always been big relative to...
Gordon and I rarely find ourselves in the same city these days, but on November 15 we will be in Cary, North Carolina with our friends at JMP for a webcast with Anne Milley. The format will be kind of like the first presidential debate with Anne ...
After taking a break from speaking at conferences for a while, I will be speaking at two in the next month. Both events are here in Boston.This Friday (9/14) I will be at Big Data Innovation talking about how Tripadvisor for Business models subsc...
The millions of travelers who review hotels, restaurants, and other attractions on TripAdvisor also supply a numeric rating by clicking one of five circles ranging from 1 for "terrible" to 5 for "excellent." On the whole, travelers are pretty kind.The ...
It's been a while since I posted. My new role at TripAdvisor has been keeping me pretty busy! My first post after a long absence is about a feature of SQL that I have recently fallen in love with. Usually, I leave it to Gordon to write about SQL since ...
On Tuesday, May 24 at 1:00pm Eastern Daylight Time, I will be presenting a webcast on behalf of JMP, a visual data exploration and mining tool. The main theme of the talk is that companies tend to manage to metrics, so it is very important ...
Hello Readers,As some of you will already have heard, I have accepted the position of Business Intelligence Director at TripAdvisor for Business--the part of TripAdvsor that sells products and services to businesses rather than consumers. The largest p...
A client recently wrote to us saying that she liked decision tree models, but for a model to be used at her bank, the risk compliance group required an R-squared value for the model and her decision tree software doesn't supply one. How should she fill...
Michael will be doing a fair amount of teaching and presenting over the next several weeks:March 16-18 Data Mining Techniques Theory and Practice at SAS Institute in Chicago.March 29 Applying Survival Analysis to Forecasting Subscriber Levels at the Ne...
The book is done! All 822 pages of the third edition of Data Mining Techniques for Marketing, Sales, and Customer Relationship Management will be hitting bookstore shelves later this month or you can order it now. To celebrate, I am returning to the bl...
