Category Archives: Decisions

Statistical Errors and Decision Making

Posted on January 1, 2017 by GilPress

  “99 percent of all statistics only tell 49 percent of the story.” ― Ron DeLegge II, Gents with No Cents “We are prone to blame decision makers for good decisions that worked out badly and to give them too … Continue reading →

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Byte Counter Byte: Human vs. Machine Judgment

Posted on January 9, 2014 by GilPress

Here’s a simple rule for the second machine age we’re in now: as the amount of data goes up, the importance of human judgment should go down… The practical conclusion is that we should turn many of our decisions, predictions, diagnoses, … Continue reading →

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Big Data and the Democratization of Decisions

Posted on October 31, 2012 by GilPress

Big Data and the Democratization of Decisions, a new research report from the Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Alteryx:   

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Big Data for Enterprise Decisions

Posted on June 1, 2011 by GilPress

James Taylor: “For all the focus on visualization and ad-hoc queries in Big Data systems, the end result is often going to be automation – a Decision Management system. 

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