First, let me say I would love to have an “easy button” for predictive analytics. Unfortunately, predictive analytics is hard work that requires deep subject matter expertise in both the business problem and data science.  I’m not trying to be provocative with this post.  I just want to share ...

I hate to have to read a long blog post before I get to the payoff.  So here is mine: Social media fosters a short attention span by triggering a dopamine (reward) response in our brains.  Innovation in Data Science (and many other technical fields) requires deep thought.  Mindless tasks ...

Overview Anomaly detection algorithms are core to many fraud and security applications/business solutions.  Identifying cases where specific values are outside norms can be useful in outlier detection (as a predicate to predictive modeling) and to identify cases of interest when labeled data is not available for supervised learning models.  ...