Q&A: FICO Chief Analytics Officer Andrew Jennings on Big Data from Vision to Value How does your company define Big Data? How are you using it? At FICO World our chief analytics officer and FICO Labs hea... Learn More
Why Analysts Can’t Predict the Super Bowl Predicting the outcome of a sporting event is difficult science. In the U.S., January brings Super Bowl predictions. Spo... Learn More
Name that Analytics Tune Monday’s NPR Marketplace featured a story on album song order – how it still matters even in the age of digital music. A... Learn More
Paying Your Dues A casual conversation with a friend in the biotech industry got around to the subject of “PhD bias”: If you are working ... Learn More
A Moment of Science: Polyglot Everything By Josh Hemann Last month, I wrote about the commoditization of analytics. Actually, what I wrote was that although th... Learn More
Analytics Win Big in the 2012 US Presidential Election The Election Day hero of November 6, 2012 was predictive analytics.  First, several prominent bloggers, such as Sa... Learn More
The New Technology Department: Marketing Within enterprises, technology decision making has been democratized. Every department participates. The “consumerizatio... Learn More
A Moment of Science: Big Data and the Commoditization of Analytics By Josh HemannThe analytic computing issues that now fall under the rubric of Big Data point to an emerging tension in t... Learn More
Big Data’s Infinite Loop Who controls the past now controls the futureWho controls the present now controls the pastWho controls the past now con... Learn More
Analytics in Action: Sports Fall is a great time to be a sports fan. It's the start of football season around the world, both for American footb... Learn More
When Big Data is Passé Has the term Big Data jumped the shark? Is it headed deep into Gartner’s trough of disillusionment? KD Nuggets recently ... Learn More
Do credit scores have a disparate impact on racial minorities? Federal Reserve Board research concluded that "credit scores do not have a disparate impact across race, ethnicity, or gender.” Learn More
What is “Alternative” Credit Data? When you stop to think about it, the term “alternative credit data” is a catch-all phrase to describe data that is not c... Learn More
More Scoring Myths: Closing Credit Cards Recently I blogged about common FICO® Score myths. Here’s another widespread misconception: People believe that th... Learn More
Research Looks at How Mortgage Delinquencies Affect Scores How much impact does a short sale have on FICO® Scores? How about a foreclosure? FICO research sheds light on this very subject. Learn More