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deanabb

  1. @SmarterHQ @kylelacey can you pick me up in San Diego?
  2. RT @avinash The Difference Between Web Reporting And Web Analysis: zqi.bo.lt/1l2vf #insights -> two hearty thumbs up!
  3. #salforddatamining Kathleen Kane: Ex from attrition "look-alikes" model, contacted them, they attrite at higher rate then untreated. Yikes!
  4. #salforddatamining kathleen kane (Fidelity) on True Lift modeling -- don't spend $$ on customers who will respond anyway!
  5. @salfordsystems #datamining 4 creators (Breiman, Friedman, Olshen, Stone) on panel: youtube.com/watch?v=XaeQo1… -- can get full video from Salford
  6. Dan Steinberg kicking off the @salfordsystems #datamining conference. Ref to SanFran 2004 conf--only one with all 4 creators of CART there.
  7. At @salfordsystems Data Mining conference today and speaking on survey analysis.
  8. @kdnuggets data mining software poll still open: kdnuggets.com/2012/05/new-po…
  9. RT @danielpink @brunoaziza "Thinking in a second language [promotes] analytical thought and [reduces] unthinking, emotional reaction"
  10. RT @danielpink @brunoaziza Thinking in a Foreign Language Makes Decisions More Rational--http://bit.ly/MA6ikG (1/2)
  11. Lies That ‘Leak’ Through Facial Expressions - Ideas Market - WSJ on.wsj.com/KIFHO6; Is 69% accuracy good on a 50/50 decision?
  12. Lies That ‘Leak’ Through Facial Expressions - Ideas Market - WSJ on.wsj.com/KIFHO6; Is 69% accuracy good?
  13. @kdnuggets Data Visual: The Dwindling Arctic Ice Cap shar.es/2NOsw -> not the 1st time->headline from 1/25/1950 bit.ly/Jk7xUv
  14. RT @salfordsystems A Reminder About Missing Values In Data Mining hub.am/JuOW1O --> the bane of data mining will always be MVs!
  15. @revodavid scales are definitely a problem, but there are enough colors in the spectrum to accomodate. :)
  16. @revodavid I got really confused when it appeared (from colors) that M life expectancy was higher than F in China, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico!
  17. @revodavid: critique is not at you, of course, but with IHME.
  18. RT @revodavid life expectancy plots at bit.ly/JbJ0MJ #rstats #DataViz: great visual! But *please* make colors consistent M to F :)