- How Benford's law could have prevented the Greek disaster - Sep 28, 2011.
Analysis of official statistics of the EU member states for the last 11 years clearly shows that Greek financial data was the most suspect.
- FICO 8 New Patents in Credit Scoring, Fraud Detection and Predictive Analytics - Sep 27, 2011.
FICO received 13 patents since the start of 2011 and holds 112 patents total. The company recently filed three more patent applications, and has another 106 patent applications pending in the United States and other countries.
- Centrifuge Systems Releases Visual Network Analytics Version 2.5 - Sep 26, 2011.
Powerful Relationship Mapping Discovers Fraud in Financial Services, Pharmaceutical and Retail Industries
- Organic and Wharton Analyze Ad Effectiveness - Sep 20, 2011.
Research finds new models for measuring how individual ad creatives and timing impact individual viewers.
- Twitter Web Analytics - Sep 18, 2011.
a publisher analytics platform to analyze usage of Tweet button and the t.co wrap. Currently being tested by partners, the platform will be rolled to public soon.
- Save Statistical Abstract of the United States - Sep 17, 2011.
published by US Census Bureau, its funding in danger of being cut, although it is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the US. You can support its continuing existence - see how.
- Goodreads Will Recommend Your Next Book - Sep 17, 2011.
a social network that lets readers rate and review books, has launched a recommendation engine for books.
- Opera Solutions Secures $84 Million In Growth Capital - Sep 15, 2011.
The equity financing is one of the largest ever for a private company in the Big Data predictive analytics space, and will be used to accelerate growth and cement Opera position as a leader in the sector.
- Splunk Makes Machine-Generated Big Data Serve Analytics - Sep 14, 2011.
works with machine-generated data (logs) , which originates constantly from many sources throughout an organization and in large quantities. Splunk focuses on performing simple analyses on this data in real time rather than batch-based advanced analytics.
- IBM Earmarks $1 Billion For SMB Tech - Sep 12, 2011.
financing will cover analytics and other IBM products/services for SMBs, including cloud, security, collaboration, and storage.
- IBM to buy Algorithmics risk analytics software firm for $387 million - Sep 7, 2011.
Algorithmics risk analytics software, content and advisory services are used by banking, investment and insurance businesses
- Kelley Blue Book picks SAS Analytics, turns big data into big value - Sep 7, 2011.
SAS forecasts ad inventory, site traffic and behavior patterns - analytical insights fuel automotive marketplace
- IBM Builds Biggest Data Drive Ever - Sep 5, 2011.
The 120 petabyte drive could enable detailed simulations of real-world phenomena or store 24 billion MP3s. It is made of 200,000 conventional hard disk drives working together.
- Deloitte Launches Collaborative Online Community for Business Analytics - Sep 5, 2011.
a social media website for industry insiders to offer analytic insights, share knowledge and best practices, and problem resolution.
- IBM buys i2 for Crime, Fraud Analytics Expertise - Sep 1, 2011.
i2 is a maker of intelligence analytics tools for crime and fraud prevention
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