TotalCIO » predictive analytics A blog Fri, 07 Mar 2014 22:19:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Business intelligence technology 3.0 is all about control, but whose? Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:01:53 +0000 In search of information for a story on business intelligence technology 2.0, I was informed politely by the head of the BI practice of a global IT provider that I was at least six years behind the times.











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What is your predictive BI analytics IQ? Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:47:55 +0000 Predictive analytics, a subset of BI analytics, was a hot topic at the Information Builders Summit in Kissimmee, Fla., this week. Predictive BI analytics is about detecting and interpreting patterns in business data in order to make guesses about what’s probably around the corner. Humans are pretty good at this, or we wouldn’t be here. As the amount of data that businesses collect, process and store in any given minute swells, the task of seeing the relevant patterns increasingly is the job of machine learning, artificial intelligence and data mining tools.

One thing we haven’t lost is our love of puzzles. Test your analytics IQ with four brainteasers, offered up in a session on BI analytics by researcher and BI author Wayne Eckerson of TDWI Research. (The smarties in the room were quick to solve all but one.)

  1. 1. What is the missing number in the following layout?
  2. 37   10    82
    29   11    47
    96   25    87
    42    ?     15

  3. 2. What does this equal?
  4. 12 = DD + 11 = PP + 10 = LL + 9 = LD + 8 = MM + 7 = SS + 6 = GL = 5 = GR + 4 = CB + 3 = FH + 2 = TD + 1 = PPT = ?

  5. 3. What do these words have in common?
  6. Vermont

  7. 4. Which word does not belong?
  8. Binoculars


Answers: 6 (sum of the two digits of the number flanking the middle column); Twelve Days of Christmas; each contains the abbreviation for a day of the week; shoes (the only pair on the list that is not connected.)

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