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Heuristics in Analytics


Heuristics in Analytics

A Practical Perspective of What Influences Our Analytical World
Wiley and SAS Business Series 1. Aufl.

von: Carlos Andre Reis Pinheiro, Fiona McNeill

32,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 31.01.2014
ISBN/EAN: 9781118420225
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 256

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<b>Employ heuristic adjustments for truly accurate analysis</b> <p><i>Heuristics in Analytics</i> presents an approach to analysis that accounts for the randomness of business and the competitive marketplace, creating a model that more accurately reflects the scenario at hand. With an emphasis on the importance of proper analytical tools, the book describes the analytical process from exploratory analysis through model developments, to deployments and possible outcomes. Beginning with an introduction to heuristic concepts, readers will find heuristics applied to statistics and probability, mathematics, stochastic, and artificial intelligence models, ending with the knowledge applications that solve business problems. Case studies illustrate the everyday application and implication of the techniques presented, while the heuristic approach is integrated into analytical modeling, graph analysis, text analytics, and more.</p> <p>Robust analytics has become crucial in the corporate environment, and randomness plays an enormous role in business and the competitive marketplace. Failing to account for randomness can steer a model in an entirely wrong direction, negatively affecting the final outcome and potentially devastating the bottom line. <i>Heuristics in Analytics</i> describes how the heuristic characteristics of analysis can be overcome with problem design, math and statistics, helping readers to:</p> <ul> <li>Realize just how random the world is, and how unplanned events can affect analysis</li> <li>Integrate heuristic and analytical approaches to modeling and problem solving</li> <li>Discover how graph analysis is applied in real-world scenarios around the globe</li> <li>Apply analytical knowledge to customer behavior, insolvency prevention, fraud detection, and more</li> <li>Understand how text analytics can be applied to increase the business knowledge</li> </ul> <p>Every single factor, no matter how large or how small, must be taken into account when modeling a scenario or event—even the unknowns. The presence or absence of even a single detail can dramatically alter eventual outcomes. From raw data to final report, <i>Heuristics in Analytics</i> contains the information analysts need to improve accuracy, and ultimately, predictive, and descriptive power.</p>
<p>Preface xi</p> <p>Acknowledgments xix</p> <p>About the Authors xxiii</p> <p><b>Chapter 1: Introduction 1</b></p> <p>The Monty Hall Problem 5</p> <p>Evolving Analytics 8</p> <p>Summary 18</p> <p><b>Chapter 2: Unplanned Events, Heuristics, and the Randomness in Our World 23</b></p> <p>Heuristics Concepts 26</p> <p>The Butterfly Effect 30</p> <p>Random Walks 37</p> <p>Summary 44</p> <p><b>Chapter 3: The Heuristic Approach and Why We Use It 45</b></p> <p>Heuristics in Computing 47</p> <p>Heuristic Problem-Solving Methods 51</p> <p>Genetic Algorithms: A Formal Heuristic Approach 54</p> <p>Summary 67</p> <p><b>Chapter 4: The Analytical Approach 69</b></p> <p>Introduction to Analytical Modeling 71</p> <p>The Competitive-Intelligence Cycle 74</p> <p>Summary 97</p> <p><b>Chapter 5: Knowledge Applications That Solve Business Problems 101</b></p> <p>Customer Behavior Segmentation 102</p> <p>Collection Models 106</p> <p>Insolvency Prevention 113</p> <p>Fraud-Propensity Models 120</p> <p>Summary 127</p> <p><b>Chapter 6: The Graph Analysis Approach 129</b></p> <p>Introduction to Graph Analysis 130</p> <p>Summary 143</p> <p><b>Chapter 7: Graph Analysis Case Studies 147</b></p> <p>Case Study: Identifying Influencers in Telecommunications 149</p> <p>Case Study: Claim Validity Detection in Motor Insurance 162</p> <p>Case Study: Fraud Identification in Mobile Operations 178</p> <p>Summary 188</p> <p><b>Chapter 8: Text Analytics 191</b></p> <p>Text Analytics in the Competitive-Intelligence Cycle 193</p> <p>Linguistic Models 198</p> <p>Text-Mining Models 200</p> <p>Summary 207</p> <p>Bibliography 209</p> <p>Index 217</p>
<p><b>CARLOS ANDRE REIS PINHEIRO</b> is Visiting Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium. He headed the Analytical Lab at Oi in Brazil, one of the largest telecommunications companies in Latin America. Pinheiro has conducted Postdoctoral Research at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Université de Savoie, France and Dublin City University, Ireland. He holds a PhD in Engineering from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He worked at Brazil Telecom for almost ten years and also accomplished postdoctoral research at IMPA, Brazil, one of the most prestigious mathematical institutions in the world. He has published several papers in international journals and conferences and has four books (all in Portuguese) that focus on the internet, database, web warehousing, and analytical intelligence. He is the author of <i>Social Network Analysis in Telecommunications</i>,<i></i> published by Wiley<i>.</i> <p><b>FIONA McNEILL</b> has applied analytics to business problems since she began her career in 1992 and has consistently helped companies benefit from strategic use of data and analytics. Throughout her career, she has been affiliated with data and technology companies, from information and survey providers, IBM Global Services and for over fifteen years, at SAS. McNeill has published in academic journals, conducted education seminars and presented at both academic and industry conferences over the course of her career. She holds an M.A. in Quantitative Behavioral Geography from McMaster University, and graduated cum laude with a B.Sc. in Bio-Physical Systems, University of Toronto.
<p>In <i>Heuristics in Analytics,</i> renowned telecommunications experts Carlos Andre Reis Pinheiro and Fiona McNeill describe analytic processes and how they fit into the heuristic world around us. In spite of the strong heuristic characteristics of the analytical processes, <i>Heuristics in Analytics</i> emphasizes the need to have the proper tools to engage analytics and shows how to overcome heuristic characteristics through the use of mathematics and statistics. <p>This straightforward book explores how important it is to properly consider the randomness and the heuristic characteristics in analytics and how crucial analytics are for companies and corporate environments. Drawing from the authors' years of experience, <i>Heuristics in Analytics</i> looks at: <ul> <li>Unplanned events, heuristics, and the randomness in our world</li> <li>The analytical approach</li> <li>The competitive intelligence cycle</li> <li>Knowledge applications that solve business problems</li> <li>Customer behavioral segmentation</li> <li>The graph analysis approach</li> </ul> <p>Packed with case studies on the entire analytical process using telecom and insurance companies based in Brazil and Ireland, <i>Heuristics in Analytics</i> provides CFOs, chief marketing officers, directors of marketing, and business managers with an insider guide to deploying mathematical and statistical models when performing analytics.

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