Tag: Data Mining

The recommendation lists at Amazon are legendary, and how they work is almost as big a secret as the Coca-Cola formula. Just kidding – it’s not, of course. We’ll explain the “magic formula” [...]

Whether it’s hype or not, Big Data is the revival of data mining – and one that has been long overdue. Big Data is bringing new momentum into data-driven corporate cultures. But knowledge alone is [...]

On May 27th, we will discuss the topic ‘Management between Intuition and Automation’ at the Hotel de Rome in Berlin. Human intuition filters and summarizes details into signals. Business Intelligence [...]

The magazine CHIP from Munich reports: "Believe it or not, most discount stores put beer and diapers fairly close to each other." That's due to Data Mining. Because: Young men come. Sent by young women [...]

When people talk about visualization, they tend to refer to two separate sub-divisions of the human species: numbers people and graphics people. As the name suggests, the first type understands and loves [...]

He has won the Oscar in informatics: the 2007 Innovation Prize of Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) for his work on "Hybrid Data Mining".

Decision-makers who receive a traffic light for support really don’t have anything more to decide. The report author already made the judgment call. Worse yet, decision-makers don’t even have the [...]

When Bella starts whining about data visualization, she counts on every last pixel. Yet at the same time, she uses deliberate omission like a form of art. If we reach a point where excluding graphical [...]

Before you can embark on innovative data analysis, you first need to know which tools are available. In a recent blog I already explored basic types of comparisons as described by Zelazny. But those are [...]

In the previous parts of this series (iPod, PowerSearch) I demonstrated how simple rankings can deliver much more information than initially meets the eye. Let’s take another look at our Formula 1 data [...]

Here is a good example of information density to the extreme! Professor Dr. Peter Mertens, who was the first professor for information systems in Germany in 1968, created 5 printed pages of knowledge [...]

Why men don’t buy beer and diapers at the same time, and what we can still learn from urban legends. “It’s in there. The discovery, the fact, the one piece of the puzzle that will blow away the [...]

Why men don't buy beer and diapers at the same time, and what we can still learn from urban legends. "It’s in there. The discovery, the fact, the one piece of the puzzle that will blow away the competition [...]