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

Reorganization of a Healthcare Products Technology Organization – Proposal

  Organizational Transition – Healthcare Products Division [Redacted] Corporation Executive Sponsor: Don Krapohl   Executive Summary [Redacted] Corporation is presently functionally-organized and biased strongly toward a single customer.  The project efforts that led to this will be drawing down in FY14.  By discounting several outmoded assumptions and capitalizing on changes in environment the organization will… Continue reading Reorganization of a Healthcare Products Technology Organization – Proposal