This week I changed things up a bit! I decided to record a video in my treehouse where I've been having quite a few meetings recently. It’s been really enjoyable to work from there given the summertime and it's been…
zankJune 30, 2020
Welcome to article four of our five-part series on Deploying Predictive Models. So far, I’ve introduced our proven 10-step data science methodology and shown how deployment is an important part of any organization’s data science roadmap. In part three, Demystifying…
zankJune 16, 2020
In our last two articles “Get Real Business Value from Data” (1) and “Don’t get These Essentials Wrong” (2), I discussed our proven data science process, introduced deployment as the last of three high-level stages, and defined deployment. In today’s…
zankJune 9, 2020
Last week, I talked about generating real business value from data science projects and shared our proven 10-step data science process. In its simplest form, three main steps are involved: Preparing the data Doing the machine learning Deploying the model…
zankJune 2, 2020
You might feel like building an analytic model is the goal of data science. And you wouldn’t be alone. Companies commonly complain that around 70% of analytics projects fail, and the biggest reason is not because of poor predictions. It’s…
zankMay 26, 2020
I just searched Google for “Data Science Articles” and got back 2,970,000,000 results. Whoa! That’s a lot of results. That’s a lot of analysis. How much is conjecture? Speculation? How much was peer-reviewed? You get it. The answer is, we…
zankMay 12, 2020
From an online shopping site to product emails, if your offers aren’t personalized, you’re leaving an opportunity on the table for one of your competitors.This week, I’ll outline a few ways with which businesses can offer simple personalization, using methods…
zankMay 5, 2020
This week I want to introduce some big, important changes to our COVID-19 Recovery Graphs along with a few related announcements. Here’s what our main page looks like right now: As discussed in our previous Tech Tuesday, our graphs have…
zankApril 28, 2020
With the measures undertaken to battle COVID-19, companies and universities find themselves shuttered and not opening anytime soon. As a result, people are increasingly turning to online education to learn something new or brush up on some old skills. And…
zankApril 21, 2020