Category: Commercial Analytics

  • AI and Big Data: A pig’s breakfast

    AI and Big Data: A pig’s breakfast

    Pigs_eating_pumpkins.jpgMartyn Richard Jones

    Dublin 10th May 2017

    Throw AI, Big Data and Data Science into a pot, and what have you got?

    Yes. A pig’s breakfast, not fit for a pig.

    Let me explain

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  • Getting business value from data? Commercial analytics is where it’s at

    Getting business value from data? Commercial analytics is where it’s at

    Martyn Richard Jones

    Overview

    I first became involved in commercial analytics in the eighties. First, through my involvement in customer segmentation and data visualisation, principally in banking but also in energy, manufacturing and the chemical industry. It also emerged later, in conjunction with my activities at the Sperry European Centre for AI, and was centred on pricing and yield management applications developed using a combination of statistical techniques, expert system technology and data centre architectures all tightly integrated within a 4GL development and delivery environment. This provided a comprehensive and seamless scenario building, hypothesis testing and reporting capability. (more…)