Meetup for Tampa Analytics Professionals

I’ve started a meetup for local professionals in the decision science field around the Tampa Bay area to come together and learn about what’s happening in our area.  If you are a data science professional, come join us and be a part of making the Tampa-St. Petersburg metro area the southeast center of excellence in… Continue reading Meetup for Tampa Analytics Professionals

US Government Business Capture Data Mining in Microsoft Excel

View agency activity clustering on geography in Excel using Excel Data Mining Add-ins By Don Krapohl 1.       Ensure you have downloaded the Excel Data Mining Add-ins from Microsoft at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35578 .  The article assumes you have a working version of the DM Addins and a default Analysis Services (SSAS) instance defined.  Search for getting started… Continue reading US Government Business Capture Data Mining in Microsoft Excel

Predicting the Best Parameters for Federal Business Capture using WEKA

Which contract parameters should I choose? What combination of features might I pursue to raise my probability of contract award? Open WEKA explorer On pre-process tab find the government_contracts.arff file. Perform pre-processing Escape non-enclosure single- and double-quotes (\’, \”) if using a delimited text version. Check ‘UniqueTransactionID’ and click ‘Remove’.  Stating the obvious, there is… Continue reading Predicting the Best Parameters for Federal Business Capture using WEKA