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The Power Of Information: February 2009
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The Power Of Information. Tuesday, February 17, 2009. My view is that feature extraction or variable creation or data preparation is the largest single activity which determines the quality of data mining results. I believe that feature extraction has an order of magnitude larger impact on the final result of a data mining exercise than does the algorithm utilized. I have several motivations for data preparation. In my experience, I can generate better data mining results through data preparation or feat...
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The Power Of Information: March 2010
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The Power Of Information. Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Money, Money, Money. Is $1 worth $1 dollar in all situations. is money linear? I believe that money is highly non-linear and our 1000's of years old concept of money needs an overhaul. If I am a millionaire how do I value an incremental dollar offered to me versus a homeless person? If I am a millionaire and I need to get out of a parking garage and my bill is $10 but I only have $9 in cash, what is $1 worth? Why is it that the more money you have the mor...
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The Power Of Information: Evaluating Change
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The Power Of Information. Tuesday, November 29, 2011. When you are considering changing the way you operate your business apply the same critical assessment of the change you are considering to the status quo and you should quickly conclude that change is the correct course. Incomplete improvements to the current process are always better than no improvement at all. Achieving all possible improvements is perfection and this is not possible. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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The Power Of Information: October 2009
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The Power Of Information. Tuesday, October 20, 2009. Living in the Moment. Short blog this morning . something a little different. I have learned to not worry about scores and outcomes. I focus on executing each shot, enjoying a well placed forehand, a good volley, a backhand slice. I can now reach a level of calmness, not having external thoughts and worries, when I play that allows me to perform to my potential which then achieves the outcomes I have so desired. Links to this post. The output of the ap...
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The Power Of Information: March 2014
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The Power Of Information. Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Data Scientists . where are they? The following blog was inspired by an article. Http:/ www.kdnuggets.com/2013/12/unicorn-data-scientists-vs-data-science-teams-discussion.html. And was posted as a comment in response to it . I was intrigued by the article as I have been struggling to find practitioners to hire who have the required skills. I agree wholeheartedly with the venn diagrams in the article. At makeplain we are trying to accomplish this level ...
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The Power Of Information: October 2012
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The Power Of Information. Wednesday, October 10, 2012. Act on Analytics Now! Grow your business in the next 20 days. Its been quite some time since I posted anything. As always I've been very busy with clients, which I am thankful for! Be willing to act and do something new. if you always do what you've always done you'll always get what you always got (I think I've said that before). Step 1 . Decide to improve your business within 20 days. Spend more on the over-perfoming sub-segments and spend less on ...
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The Power Of Information: April 2008
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The Power Of Information. Thursday, April 3, 2008. I believe that information can be used to dramatically transform the world we live in today. Information can be created from systems that generate data. We can collect data about business, political, social, natural and other systems. Business leaders, politicians, environmentalists, scientists etc. try to glean information about the systems they work with so they can make intelligent decisions. I am not aware of a single business or organization that ha...
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The Power Of Information: July 2009
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The Power Of Information. Monday, July 6, 2009. Five thoughts . one blog. Long time no blog . been very busy, which is great! Just wanted to put down some short statements that I always use with clients, colleagues, friends related to the power of information. Creating a great value proposition(s). yes! Executing brilliantly . yes! Marketing, promoting and operationally executing your value propositions . yes! Track the results of your operational processes . yes! Links to this post.
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The Power Of Information: February 2010
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The Power Of Information. Thursday, February 18, 2010. Getting organizations and people to change is very difficult and is the real challenge when delivering strategic analytic solutions. By strategic analytic solutions, I mean solutions which could double a company's bottom-line performance. Overlooking change management issues will doom projects to the dustbin. There are two types of change required: surgical change to business processes that are impacted by information and strategic change which requi...
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