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Predictive Analytics
F IRST QUARTER 2007

T DWI BEST PRACTICES REPORT

PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS
Extending the Value of Your
Data Warehousing Investment
By Wayne W. Eckerson

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FIRST QUARTER 2007

TDWI BEST PRACTICES REPORT

PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS
Extending the Value of Your
Data Warehousing Investment
By Wayne W. Eckerson

Table of Contents
Research Methodology and Demographics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
What Is Predictive Analytics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
The Business Value of Predictive Analytics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Measuring Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
How Do You Deliver Predictive Analytics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

The Process of Predictive Modeling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1. Defining the Project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2. Exploring the Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3. Preparing the Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4. Building Predictive Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5. Deploying Analytical Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6. Managing Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Trends in Predictive Analytics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Analytics Bottleneck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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