James Taylor: July 2009 Archives

Predictive analytics turn uncertainty into usable probability

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By James Taylor on July 31, 2009 9:08 AM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
Following on from yesterday's post on analytics, let's talk about predictive analytics. Another phrase I picked up while working at FICO was this one: Predictive analytics turn uncertainty about the future into usable probability Again, I don't know if the... Read More..
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Analytics simplify data to amplify its value

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By James Taylor on July 30, 2009 10:47 AM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
With IBM's announcement this week that it was acquiring SPSS I have been talking to a lot of folks about analytics. Analytics is one of those topics that is often on the edge of what IT people know so I... Read More..
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Getting business and IT alignment with business rules

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By James Taylor on July 22, 2009 12:26 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Michael Cote of Redmonk had a nice piece on over on his People over Process blog. He made a series of great points about the risk of business and IT people not being aligned - risks to the business and... Read More..

Is the Speed of Decision Making Accelerating? Yes

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By James Taylor on July 20, 2009 1:11 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Paul Brasch wrote a nice piece on Is the Speed of Decision Making Accelerating. He concludes, and I agree, that it is in fact doing so - the need to decide while customers are on the phone or on the... Read More..
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New books on Drools

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By James Taylor on July 13, 2009 7:47 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
I have recently been a reviewer for Michal Bali's new book on Drools (Drools JBoss Rules 5.0 Developer's Guide), which will soon be generally available. In the meantime you could check out an example of the style by reading this... Read More..
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A message for the application developer in the mirror

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By James Taylor on July 6, 2009 11:59 AM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes
Mike Gualtieri is always interesting over at the Forrester Blog For Application Development & Program Management Professionals. This week he has a post called Do Application Developers Need To Change Their Ways? In the post he asks developers to look... Read More..
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Business Rules are a failed abstraction - so what?

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By James Taylor on July 2, 2009 10:17 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes
Jeff Attwood had a great post over on Coding Horror - All Abstractions Are Failed Abstractions in which he discussed a Joel Spolsky article in which that states All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. At some level, of... Read More..
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