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An interesting article about data mining of web data

Icon Written by Rick Haynes on February 23, 2012 – 4:36 pm

A good friend of mine forwarded me a link to an article titled  “How Target Figured out my daughter was pregnant before her father did” This article derives from a NY Times article. In the article it talks about the daughter receiving a mailed advertisement flier for baby stuff from Target, when she was young and [...]

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Human decisions

Icon Written by Rick Haynes on October 24, 2011 – 8:28 pm

A book review of “thinking, fast and slow” in the wall street journal was interesting. The author evaluated decisions and found two mechanisms. A quick association and slow logic. Example: a left wing women who routinely protests the war. What is her job? A bank teller or a bank teller who is a feminist ? [...]



Risk Analysis in Business

Icon Written by Rick Haynes on May 5, 2011 – 11:54 am

I have been reading about Sony and the breach of the Play Station Network (PSN) to hackers.  If you are a PS3 user, you surely know about it because you can not play online right now.  Now, this event is not unique and not that catastrophic, but the real issue is how they handled it.  [...]

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