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Which programming languages provide the fastest implementations, from specs to product?
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Automated Debugging: SQL, C++, Perl, SAS, Java, C#, Python
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Clario Analytics
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What seems bigger: the moon, or the sun?

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How to use the search box on AnalyticBridge

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Adobe to buy Omniture for $1.8 billion
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Bias in car accident studies
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Analytics for Small and Medium Size Business

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Which colors can not be rendered on a computer screen?
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Int. J. Appl. Mathematics & Statistics

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What seems bigger: the moon, or the sun?

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What seems bigger: the moon, or the sun?
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A new powerful rule to detect credit card fraud

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Google search: keyword "data mining" going down, "business intelligence", "cloud computing" and "analytics" going up

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A more efficient version of multivariate or A/B testing
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Larry replied to Vincent Granville's discussion 'Which programming languages provide the fastest implementations, from specs to product?'

Some considerations... Python - even thought its interpreter language its often hailed for its ease of development and speed Go - this is a new language developed by Google. It supposed to offer the ease of Python and the speed of C,C++http://go...

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Which programming languages provides the fastest implementations, from specs to product?

Of course, it depends on the type of project. I'm talking about prototyping and testing scalable applications on datasets involving several gigabytes at least. Text mining, keyword analytics: I would think scripting languages, Perl in particular,...

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Forget about Liar’s Poker; High Frequency Trading is all about the quants!

By Andrea Henderson, Examiner.com In a July 23, 2009 New York Times article entitled “Stock Traders Find Speed Pays, in Milliseconds”, Charles Duhigg writes “It is the hot new thing on Wall Street, a way for a handful of traders to master the sto...

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Short Bio:: Dr. Vincent Granville has successfully solved problems for 15 years in data mining, text mining, predictive modeling, business intelligence, technical analysis, keyword and web analytics. Vincent is widely recognized as the leading expert in click scoring and web traffic optimization. Over the last ten years, he has worked in real-time credit card fraud detection with Visa, advertising mix optimization with CNET, A/B testing with LowerMyBills, online user experience with Wells Fargo, search intelligence with InfoSpace, click fraud detection with major search engines and large advertising clients, as well as statistical litigation.

Vincent was formerly Chief Science Officer at Authenticlick, where he developed patent pending technology. Most recently, he successfully launched DataShaping and AnalyticBridge, the largest social network for analytic professionals, with 20,000 members. Vincent is a former post-doctorate of Cambridge University and the National Institute of Statistical Sciences. He was among the finalists at the Wharton School Business Plan Competition and at the Belgian Mathematical Olympiads. Vincent has published 40 papers in statistical journals and is an invited speaker at international conferences. He also developed a new data mining technology known as hidden decision trees.

Contact: vincentg@datashaping.com

My Website:: http://www.datashaping.com

Field of Expertise:: Data Mining, Finance, Marketing Databases, Web Analytics, Statistical Consulting, Other

Years of Experience in Analytical Role:: 15+

Professional Status:: C-Level

Interests:: Networking, New Venture, Other

What Other Analytical Website do you Recommend?: http://www.kdnuggets.com

Your Company:: Data Shaping Solutions

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Elder Research partners with SAS & Teradata to start the first analytics "think tank", the Business Analytics Innovation Center

CARY, NC (Oct. 26, 2009) – Recognizing the growing need and challenges businesses face driving operational analytics across enterprises, SAS and Teradata are planning to establish a centralized “think tank” where customers can discuss analytic best practices with domain and subject-matter experts, and quickly test or implement innovative models that uncover unique insights for optimizing business operations. The Business Analytics Innovation Center will combine the strengths of SAS, the leader i… Continue

Posted on November 12, 2009 at 9:42pm —

Four Short Links by Nat Torkington

Four short links: 12 November 2009
CRM on Rails, Data Mining on Hadoop, Disappointing Keynotes, The Teapot Effect
by Nat Torkington | @gnat | comments: 1

1. Fat Free CRM -- open source (Affero GPL) Ruby on Rails CRM system.
2. Bixo -- open source data mining toolkit that runs as a series of pipes on top of Hadoop. Built on Cascading workflow system for Hadoop that hides MapReduce. (via kdnuggets)
3. Andy Kessler's Keynote at Defrag Stank (Pete Warden) -- I'm sorry to hear it, because I loved An… Continue

Posted on November 12, 2009 at 9:40pm —

Ads That Reject The Click

By Kyle Johnson

Is online advertising a good vehicle for reaching brand advertising goals? Judged by their actions, more and more advertisers are voting “yes.” During the past several months, we’ve observed a gradual but decisive stride from an ambivalent stance toward a full embrace of online media as a branding tool.

This past week, we witnessed a Ford display campaign that to us represented a noteworthy waypoint in the development of online ads designed for branding objectives: ads that rej… Continue

Posted on November 1, 2009 at 11:30am —

The Las Vegas Counterfeiting Story: Is Your Privacy Worth More Than a Poker Chip?

By Ray Everett-Church

Last week in Las Vegas, a husband and wife team were indicted for putting $60,000 in counterfeit $100 bills into slot machines at Caesar’s Palace.

Apparently the fake bills were of such high quality that the bill scanners on the slot machines accepted about 600 of the bogus Benjamins over the course of four days before the money laundering plot was uncovered.

But what makes this story interesting from a privacy and security perspective is how the alleged perpetrators wer… Continue

Posted on October 29, 2009 at 7:32pm —

Zementis and SAIC Sign Marketing Agreement

Companies work together to deliver breakthrough predictive analytics solutions to utility companies.

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) October 23, 2009 -- Zementis, Inc., a leading provider of predictive analytics solutions, today announced that it has signed a marketing agreement with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) [NYSE:SAI, a FORTUNE 500® scientific, engineering, and technology applications company, to deliver real-time predictive analytics to utility companies.

In the global que… Continue

Posted on October 24, 2009 at 3:09pm —

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At 10:27pm on October 5, 2009, Sérgio Paulo Padua Pires said…: Thanks for following me on twitter.

At 12:06pm on September 26, 2009, Arijit said…: Thanks Vincent! It was quite a help.

At 1:01am on September 26, 2009, Arijit said…: Hi Vincent, I'm a regular user of Analytic Bridge & find it very helpful. But with it's search functionality I've some issues. Can it be possible to improve the internal search engine of this site.

Regards,
Arijit

At 10:35am on September 4, 2009, hafiz kashif munir said…: hi, im student & doing BCS final year project on "Distributed Data Mining in credit card fraud detection",
in which i have transaction records in which i want to layout fraudulent transaction by using Algo's approach, plz guide me

At 4:47am on September 1, 2009, Rachel Cabani said…: Hi Vincent,
This site is a very intelligent idea. Hopefully I will come in contact with interesting people here.
Have a nice day,
Rachel

At 2:46am on August 24, 2009, Mike said…: Thanks for the invite, will check out the group

At 3:57pm on August 13, 2009, Jacqueline Shaffer said…: Thank you for the invitation to join AnalyticBridge.

At 10:07am on August 8, 2009, Mukund said…: Thanks Vincent for your invitation,I am now a member n wish to invite you as my first friend here.
Kind Regards
cheers
mukund

At 7:08am on July 24, 2009, Georg Fuerlinger said…: Thanks for the invite!
I am just curiouse, where did you "find" me?
Best,
George

At 1:33pm on June 25, 2009, Kirk Doxtader said…: Thank you for inviting me to this forum.

I have a deep interest on how analytics can and do influence more accurate decision making.