Poll: Data Mining ROI

What was approximate average ROI from your data mining project(s) in 2008? [81 votes total] Not applicable - not deployed (12) 15% Deployed, but don't know ROI (25) 31% Negative or zero (4) 5% 1-10% (2) 2% 11-25% (1) 1% 26-50% (5) 6% 51-100% (8) 10% 101-250% (9) 11% 251-1000% (8) 10% over 1000% (7) 9%

Comments

Editor: ROI distribution
The ROI distribution among deployed projects is clearly not normal, but closer to power law. The median ROI is in 125-150% range.

Also, we note that over 1/3 of those who deployed the project do not know the approximate ROI.

For data mining to be seen as a useful business tool, ROI should be measure, so I want to encourage all data miners whose work was deployed, to find out their ROI, at least approximately.