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April 2010 Blog Posts (3)

Numbers Gone Wild (the essay)

Numbers Gone Wild: Or, Precision In, Garbage Out (the essay), by Mark Chussil

This brief essay highlights key themes from my Numbers Gone Wild workshop at the 2010 SCIP International Annual Conference on March 11, 2010. It does not…

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Added by Mark Chussil on April 21, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Kaggle, competitions and competitive intelligence

Today, economist and blogger Nicholas Gruen announced that he had become chairman of Kaggle.com. Kaggle is a service that allows companies to run data-modelling and prediction competitions. Two type of competitions are supported – competitions to predict the…

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Added by Heath Gibson on April 14, 2010 at 7:25am — No Comments

In CI – better answers start with better questions

Competitive intelligence (CI) is a discipline with the potential to provide organisations with valuable insights in to how to perform better. But like most things, the quality of the output is influenced by the quality of the inputs. In CI, one of the key inputs is the questions that it is expected to answer.…

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Added by Heath Gibson on April 1, 2010 at 5:16pm — No Comments