Last-Touch Attribution Really Isn’t All You Need

There is a narrow region where last-touch attribution models are capable, but in far more cases they can be quickly and thoroughly led astray by confounding factors. We were interested in assessing the quality of the simpler attribution heuristics, and this blog post will summarize our findings.

Business Insights Meet Analytics Skills in Anomaly Detection

Most analytics applications are built for regular data and normal processes—handling about 99% of use cases. But at business scale, the remaining 1% of irregular or anomalous cases can translate to millions or billions of data elements—each potentially connected to other data sets. This mixing of regular and irregular data can be a serious problem for machine learning or AI models that only expect to process typical data. But an opportunity hides here as well.

Responsible Artificial Intelligence (RAI) Intro and an Example Issue: Outliers

Every stage of an analytics challenge is susceptible to error and misdirection, seeping in to weaken or destroy useful results. It takes expertise and discipline—responsible AI (RAI) practices—to guard against these hazards.

AI Is the Future.
Data Governance Is Now.

Organizations everywhere want to benefit from the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Data organization is essential to success.

Government AI: Starting Small with Small Language Models (SLMs)

Many government agencies are in the early stages of exploring generative AI and large language models.

As organizations navigate this phase, our experience suggests a valuable insight: small language models can offer a practical and cost-effective starting point for government organizations venturing into AI.

Navigating Hazards of Out-of-the-Box Solutions

In today’s fast-paced, data-driven world, businesses need solutions that can keep up with evolving demands.

For many, out-of-the-box solutions (OOBS) offer a tempting promise of quick implementation and ease of use. But are they always the best choice?

Balancing AI Power with Human Insight: A Humorous Dive into Text Analytics

Moving Beyond ROI: Return on Adoption

With generative AI showing early promise of substantial productivity gains, organizations should start to think not just of traditional metrics like ROI but ROA, Return on Adoption, as a critical measure of success in the future.

Reflections on Generative AI

Is My Data Lake Actually a Data Swamp?

How Do You Begin a Data Science Project?

How Often Does the Best Team Win the Title?

Decision Process Improvement (DPI): Better, Faster Decisions

Data-Driven Change: Essential Mindsets

Arranging a Suite of Analytics for Hotel Data

Previewing the MYOB Podcast

Defying Gravity

How a Datathon Saved Christmas

Machine Learning’s Missing Link: Business Leadership

How Do You Measure Success?