Cause-alities

Extending "Predictive Analytics" Using Complexity Science Models -- Part 1

"Predictive Analytics" is the "next generation of data-mining" according to  Forrester Research. The promise of significant bottomline benefits is making it big business with most enterprise software vendors participating.  I believe that complexity sciences modeling has a generally unrecognized potential to play an important role in the development of this capability.

Let's Get Statistical

When I begin working with a client that is unfamiliar with my applied view of complexity science one of the first questions they ask is "Why can't I do this with a spreadsheet?"  If you haven't read it already, here is my answer
to that one.

The second question in analytically sophisticated organizations is usually "How is this different than a multi-regression or econometric model?"  That's the subject of this post.