Play More Games to Get Your Ph.D.: Fun with Spurious Correlations
<p>Correlation doesn’t equal causation. This point sometimes gets lost in the Big Data discussion.</p>
<p>The argument...
Your Washing Machine Knows What You Did with Your Darks
<p>The Internet of Things is expanding beyond smartphones, game consoles, wearable wellness and the ilk to include your ...
Democratizing Analytics: Making Hadoop More Accessible
Hadoop is a big deal. But Hadoop’s biggest roadblocks may be its complexity and the scarcity of software engineers who a...
Infographic: Helicopter Blades, Airbags and Analytics
<p >People describe lots of things as being “real-time.” But what does that phrase mean? If a task takes 10 seconds, is ...
Having Difficulty Taking Advantage of Your Big Data? You’re Not Alone, Study Finds
The first step to recovery is admitting that you have a problem. Last week KPMG released the findings of a survey of 144...
VIDEO: Superior Scorecards at Warp Speed – Algorithmic Learning Meets Domain Expertise
<p>The video below shows Dr. Gerald Fahner, FICO Labs blogger and senior director in FICO’s Research Division, presentin...
Wearable Wellness – The Latest Fashion in Big Data
The Consumer Electronics Association just released a report on the growth of the connected health and wellness consumer ...
13 in 13: Top 13 FICO Labs Blog Posts of 2013
Launched in late September of 2012, the FICO Labs blog is a little over a year old. In our first full year of covering i...
A Little Horn Tooting: FICO Ranked in Top 50 for Content Marketing
We just received a fantastic endorsement of our blogs, and other content from kapost, a content marketing platform provi...
Random Acts of Analytics
Fantasy football is big business, generating profits in excess of $1 billion through cable deals, advertisements, draft ...
Top 10 Ways You Know You’re a Data Scientist
As the sexiest job of the 21st century, we thought the data scientist deserved a slogan that could fit on a bumper stick...
East Bests West in Utility of Mobility
Guess which continent leads the pack when it comes to businesses engaging with consumers through mobile devices. Hint: I...
Big Data Analytics: It’s Electric
Most Californians remember the California electricity crisis, which resulted in rolling brown outs and skyrocketing ener...
Getting Maximum Value Out of Analytics
As businesses add better analytics, they increase the number of decision points for differentiating between customers an...
Choosing the Right Analytics: Uplift Models
Last week we discussed time-to-event models; this week our series on choosing the right analytics for the job moves to u...
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