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Combination Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed Rhabdomyosarcoma
Basic Trial Information
|Protocol IDs
|Phase III
|Biomarker/Laboratory analysis, Treatment
|Under 50
|NCI, Other
Trial Description
This randomized phase III trial is studying two different combination chemotherapy regimens to compare how well they work when given together with radiation therapy in treating patients with newly diagnosed rhabdomyosarcoma. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as vincristine sulfate, dactinomycin, cyclophosphamide, and irinotecan hydrochloride, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to kill tumor cells. Giving combination chemotherapy together with radiation therapy may kill more tumor cells. It is not yet known which combination chemotherapy regimen is more effective when given together with radiation therapy in treating patients with rhabdomyosarcoma.
Further Study Information
I. To compare the early response rates, failure-free survival (FFS), and survival of patients with intermediate-risk rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) treated with surgery, radiotherapy, and vincristine (vincristine sulfate), dactinomycin and cyclophosphamide (VAC) or VAC alternating with vincristine, irinotecan (irinotecan hydrochloride) (VI).
I. To compare FFS, local control, and survival of patients with intermediate-risk RMS treated with VAC and early (week 4) radiotherapy vs delayed (week 10) radiotherapy, using data from Intergroup Rhabdomyosarcoma Study (IRS)-IV for historic comparison.
II. To compare the acute and late effects of VAC to VAC alternating with VI, including the toxicity associated with concurrent VI and radiotherapy.
III. To compare the acute and late effects of VAC as delivered on this study to D9803 VAC.
IV. To correlate change in fludeoxyglucose F-18 positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) maximum standard uptake value (SUVmax) from week 1 to week 4 and 15 with FFS.
V. For VI treated patients, to correlate patient UDP glucuronosyltransferase 1 family, polypeptide A1 (UGT1A1) genotype with VI toxicity. VI. To correlate cytochrome P450, family 2, subfamily B, polypeptide 6 (CYP2B6), cytochrome P450, family 2, subfamily C, polypeptide 9 (CYP2C9), and glutathione S-transferase alpha 1 (GSTA1) genotypes with VAC toxicity.
VII. To prospectively evaluate and validate gene expression values with the intent to define the best diagnostic predictors and more powerful prognostic classifiers.
VIII. To assess the frequency of bladder dysfunction in patients with bladder, prostate, and pelvic sites of RMS 3-6 years after study enrollment.
OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms within 42 days of initial surgery or biopsy.
ARM I (VAC): Patients receive VAC chemotherapy comprising vincristine sulfate IV over 1 minute on day 1 of weeks 1-13, 16, 19-25, 28, 31-37, and 40; dactinomycin IV over 1-5 minutes on day 1 of weeks 1, 4, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, 31, 34, 37, and 40; and cyclophosphamide IV over 1 hour on day 1 of weeks 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, 31, 34, 37, and 40.
ARM II (VAC/VI): Patients receive VAC chemotherapy alternating with VI chemotherapy comprising vincristine sulfate IV over 1 minute on day 1 of weeks 1-13,16, 17, 19, 20, 22-26, 28, 31-34, 37, 38, and 40; dactinomycin IV over 1-5 minutes on day 1 of weeks 1,13, 22, 28, 34, and 40; cyclophosphamide IV over 1 hour on day 1 of weeks 1,10, 13, 22, 28, 34, and 40; and irinotecan hydrochloride IV over 90 minutes on days 1-5 of weeks 4, 7, 16, 19, 25, 31, and 37.
In both arms, treatment continues in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients* in both arms also undergo radiotherapy 5 days a week for 4-6 weeks beginning in week 4 (except patients with alveolar RMS rendered group I by amputation OR patients needing week 1 emergency radiotherapy for symptomatic spinal cord compression).
NOTE: *Individualized local control plan that deviates from protocol-mandated radiotherapy allowed for patients =< 24 months of age.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 2-4 months for 4 years and then annually for 5-10 years.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients with newly diagnosed embryonal RMS, botryoid or spindle cell variants of embryonal RMS, ectomesenchymoma, or alveolar RMS are eligible for this study
- Enrollment on COG-D9902 to confirm local histologic diagnosis with central pathology review is required for all patients
- Patients may be enrolled on ARST0531 and start protocol treatment prior to receipt of central pathology review results
- Patient must have Intermediate-risk RMS defined as:
- Embryonal, botryoid, or spindle cell RMS, or ectomesenchymoma: stage 2 or 3 and group III OR
- Alveolar RMS: stage 1-3 and group I-III
- Staging ipsilateral retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (SIRLND) is required for all patients >= 10 years of age with paratesticular tumors and for patients < 10 years with clinically or radiographically involved lymph nodes (except when extensive lymph node involvement, defined as two or more lymph nodes > 2 cm in dimension, is identified by imaging studies)
- Regional lymph node sampling or sentinel lymph node procedure is required for histologic evaluation in patients with extremity tumors
- Clinically or radiographically enlarged nodes should be sampled for histologic evaluation
- Detection of metastasis by optional FDG PET (not required for study enrollment); FDG PET may detect abnormalities suggestive of metastasis not identified by bone scan, computed tomography (CT), or bone marrow aspiration/biopsy; the prognostic significance of FDG PET-detected abnormalities is not clear; FDG PET-detected abnormalities MUST be confirmed to be metastases by an additional imaging modality (such as magnetic resonance imaging [MRI] or CT) OR pathologic confirmation; unless FDG PET abnormalities are confirmed by another imaging modality or biopsy, FDG PET abnormalities will NOT be considered evidence of metastasis
- Patients must have a performance status of 0, 1, or 2; the Lansky performance score should be used for patients < 16 years and the Karnofsky performance score for patients >= 16 years
- Patients who have received prior chemotherapy (excluding steroids) or radiation therapy, except for patients transferring from ARST0331 (low-risk study), are not eligible
- Creatinine clearance or radioisotope glomerular filtration rate (GFR) >= 70 ml/min/1.73 m^2 or a serum creatinine based on age/gender as follows:
- 1 month to < 6 months: 0.4 mg/dL
- 6 months to < 1 year: 0.5 mg/dL
- 1 to < 2 years: 0.6 mg/dL
- 2 to < 6 years: 0.8 mgt/dL
- 6 to < 10 years: 1 mg/dL
- 10 to < 13 years: 1.2 mg/dL
- 13 to < 16 years: 1.5 mg/dL (males) or 1.4 mg/dL (females)
- >= 16 years: 1.7 mg/dL (males) or 1.4 mg/dL (females)
- Patients with urinary tract obstruction by tumor must meet the renal function criteria AND must have unimpeded urinary flow established via decompression of the obstructed portion of the urinary tract
- Total bilirubin =< 1.5 x upper limit of normal for age
- Peripheral absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 750/uL
- Platelet count >= 75,000/uL (transfusion independent)
- No evidence of uncontrolled infection
- Patients must be able to undergo radiation therapy, if necessary, as specified in the protocol
- Female patients of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test
- Female patients who are breast feeding must agree to stop breast feeding
- Sexually active patients of childbearing potential must be willing to use effective contraception during therapy and for at least 1 month after treatment is completed
- All patients and/or their parents or legal guardians must sign a written informed consent
- All institutional, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and National Cancer Institute (NCI) requirements for human studies must be met
Trial Contact Information
Trial Lead Organizations/Sponsors
Children's Oncology Group
- National Cancer Institute
Trial Sites
Los Angeles
Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA
Pamela H Kempert
Ph: 310-825-6708
University of California Davis Cancer Center
Jay Michael S Balagtas
Ph: 916-734-3089
New Jersey
Carol G. Simon Cancer Center at Morristown Memorial Hospital
Steven L Halpern
Ph: 973-971-5900
New York
New York
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Birte Wistinghausen
Ph: 212-824-7320
Email: email@example.com
Falls Church
Inova Fairfax Hospital
Marshall A Schorin
Ph: 703-208-6650
Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record.
NLM Identifier NCT00354835
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on April 09, 2015
Note: Information about this trial is from the ClinicalTrials.gov database. The versions designated for health professionals and patients contain the same text. Minor changes may be made to the ClinicalTrials.gov record to standardize the names of study sponsors, sites, and contacts. Cancer.gov only lists sites that are recruiting patients for active trials, whereas ClinicalTrials.gov lists all sites for all trials. Questions and comments regarding the presented information should be directed to ClinicalTrials.gov.


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25 Songs, 25 Days – Day 7December 9, 2012
C'mon, there was one song that was EVERYWHERE this summer. And I still really enjoy it, actually.
Day 7: A song that reminds you of the past summer
Gotye – Somebody That I Used to Know
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 Analytics are moving with the speed of light and are going for the cloud. This movement was represented in a key theme at the 2015 Gartner BI Summit that stressed the importance of self-service analytics. Self-service tools empower users to think fast and move faster by quickly generating insights from data without the reliance of heavy IT investments and traditional infrastructure. That means users are looking at tools that let them operate without boundaries of the on-premise installations and costs. Now imagine taking a tool that allows you to optimize your decisions and gain a competitive advantage and deploying it through a self-service application - a quick, powerful and easy way to convert data to actions.

 In my previous post, I described how I got hooked on the magic of Decision Optimization during my student years. Fast forward to today, and I'm still enthralled by optimization, and continuing to learn and work with optimization every day as a product manager for IBM Decision Optimization. In recent years, Decision Optimization has been getting more and more recognition as the technology providing the competitive edge in analytics, being able to extract maximum value out of schedules, plans, and designs. And now, with the emergence of Analytics on Cloud, we are taking IBM Decision Optimization to the clouds.

 "On cloud" means that this powerful technology is now available self-serve to OR experts, IT developers, and analytics entrepreneurs alike, providing them with access to powerful servers without any hardware investment, and in many cases at a fraction of the cost of an on-premise setup.

 But…"on cloud" is not just about taking an on-premise product and making it available on a cloud server. It is about making Decision Optimization more consumable to a larger audience, throughout the entire cycle of the user experience.

 With IBM Decision Optimization on Cloud (DOcloud) we aim to improve each of the 6 user experiences:

 Discover, try and buy: The drag-and-drop "DropSolve" interface lets you solve your models online, simply by dragging them onto the website (this tends to make my demos of DropSolve difficult – it's so quick and easy that the demo is over in 1 second). And no installation or downloads required!

 Getting started: DOcloud is available "self-serve", so you get to choose the amount of solve time you want to pay for, the server configuration best suitable for your business, and you can order online with a credit card. That said, IBM help is available if you need extra assistance.

 Productive use: With DOcloud, you can scale up and down according to your business needs. For example, if you run a tactical planning model only 5 hours each quarter, you only pay for 5 hours of solve time per quarter. Similarly, if you need extra solve capacity only once a year, you can access the powerful DOcloud servers once a year without having to invest in additional hardware yourself. You pay for what you need, when you need it!

 Manage and upgrade: One word – "none". The latest version is always available on cloud.

 Leverage & extend (API): Use the DOcloud API to embed CPLEX Optimizer on cloud in any application. For example, as an analytics entrepreneur, embed DOcloud in an optimization-based app and deploy it on IBM Bluemix.

 Support: Socialize with other analytics and cloud experts in the DOcloud developer's community.

 To learn more about IBM Decision Optimization on Cloud (DOcloud), or sign up for the free trial, go to https://ibm.biz/trydocloud. I'll be talking more about Decision Optimization on Cloud at IBM Vision 2015.

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 In my undergrad engineering studies, our class was given a competitive assignment to design the most efficient heat exchanger for a chemical production plant. Designing a good heat exchanger involves many conflicting decisions, such as selecting just the right input and output temperatures, the choice of materials, pipe diameters, pipe lengths and so forth. A tweak in the wrong direction can severely affect the system efficiency.

 This is also true when designing an airplane, a production plant, a supply chain network, or even a financial plan – to get most value you need to decide on just the right combination of choices. So how does one go about finding the best combination of decisions for maximum efficiency?

 One approach is simulation. This means creating a mathematical model of the system or business problem, and then trying (simulating) combinations of different parameters until finding the best combination. At the time, simulation was the best analytics tool available to our class, so we proceeded to spend an entire weekend trying different parameters and analyzing the results. Eventually, after 48 hours of non-stop simulation we reached the competition deadline and submitted our design.

 Six months later, I joined the graduate engineering program at Carnegie Mellon University. There, I discovered the world of decision optimization under the guidance of Professor Ignacio Grossmann. Once again, our class was given an assignment to design the most efficient heat exchanger. But this time, we were given a new analytics tool I hadn't heard of before – it was called "mathematical optimization". With this tool, we again created a mathematical model, but instead of running hundreds of simulations, we specified an objective to "maximize efficiency", clicked a "solve" button, and 5 seconds later saw the best design!

 I was hooked! How was it possible that this "mathematical optimization" could do in 5 seconds what we spent 48 hours on with simulation? (Today, simulation and optimization are often used together, and for many decision problems optimization provides significant speed-ups and increased value.)

 Since that "Aha!" moment in Prof. Grossmann's class, I've discovered the wonders of Decision Optimization technology across many domains, from beer manufacturing, to oil exploration infrastructure investment, to bandwidth auctions, to financial planning, to urban water systems design – the possibilities are endless.

 Did our team win the competition this story started with? Yes! But we could've found an even better design in 5 seconds, instead of missing out on an entire weekend of student fun, had we known about Analytics' Best Kept Secret: Decision Optimization.

 I'll be talking more about Decision Optimization, and how it can benefit business decision making, at IBM Vision 2015.

 See also the follow-up blog post: Analytics' Best Kept Secret Heads for the Clouds

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 This week, my thoughts turn to Mother's Day, since it happens to be a year when Mother's Day and my birthday occur on the same day in the U.S. Over the years of raising two millennials, I saw many things change. But, one thing hasn't changed; I am the still the chief grocery shopper in the house. Many of my fellow mothers have told me the same. So, to celebrate all of us Moms and our grocery purchases, this Watson Analytics use case will focus on how it can help grocery store managers understand more about their customers.

 Gauging the ever-changing moods of shoppers

 If you're a grocery store manager for a leading national grocer, you need to understand what customers want and ensure that your store gives them the products and levels of service that they expect. If not, your customers will head straight to another supermarket or warehouse store without a second thought. Customer loyalty is a fickle thing, though. One minute, you're the place to get fresh produce or deals on cereal and the next, you might be yesterday's news.

 And, if the moods of your customers weren't enough to give you headaches, there is the even more difficult puzzle of trying to anticipate those moods and be prepared to turn them back your way. Sales data and discount campaign information can be helpful, but it doesn't have all the answers. And, you don't have time to riffle through all those spreadsheets anyway, when you have produce on your shelves that's not getting sold.

 Tweets in store

 Let's say you noticed a peak in store sales a few weeks ago and you know that it's because you had a sudden rush of new customers. Imagine if you could access Twitter data and use it to create a predictive model that used new prospective customers as a target to understand what might be driving them to your store. What if you could see immediately that the new customers are most influenced by mentions of the store on Twitter? And suppose you could dig deeper and discover that tweets related to key departments in your store also affected the surge of new customers?

 You move around a single workspace, asking questions and using hashtags to do your research. You see a spike in produce and seafood sales at about the time you had the peak in new customers. You ask more questions, create more visuals, add more Twitter data and look at another predictive model and that's when you learn that for the period in question, your demand for fresh produce exceeded your supply. Why? Because apparently, a nearby competitor's produce delivery was held up in transit and they were out of what your new customers needed. This is a great story that you can share with your district manager, so you build an infographic that proves your findings.All of this sounds too good to be true, right? Who has that kind of connection to Twitter data? The answer is Watson Analytics. Watson Analytics Personal and Professional editions offer Twitter data sets as part of the subscription.

 The top banana

 With Watson Analytics, you can do all these things and more. You can add insights from Twitter data to your internal data to get a better understanding of customer sentiment or external trends that might be affecting your grocery or other kind of retail business. You can also use it as part of the process of determining the major influencers on a specific outcome such as getting new customers in your store. You can study behavior patterns with the decision rules and drill down into the decisions to build profiles of your grocery or retail customers.

 You can track sales and compare them with tweets from the same period. You can then take any of the data you have plus visualizations that Watson Analytics has created for you and create compelling visuals and infographics that tell your story or help you make your point. You can truly take charge of data and customer sentiment and put it to better use.

 Want to learn more?

 To see an example of how a grocery store manager could use Twitter data and Watson Analytics to build an infographic, check out this video.

 If you haven't used Watson Analytics yet, today's a great day to sign up for your free account at www.watsonanalytics.com.

 If you want more from Watson Analytics, consider the Professional Edition. Attend the webcast on May 14 at 1 p.m. ET and view this video to learn more.
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 Watson Analytics is a cloud-based analytics service designed to make easier for you to find insights in your data all on your own. You can ask, discover, predict and visualize your way—with predictive analytics and data visualization built for you. Over the past few months, I've been showing you ways you can use Watson Analytics to get better insights and make smarter decisions. I hope they've inspired you to try Watson Analytics by signing up for the free edition or subscribing to the personal edition. And if you liked those use cases, I assure you that more are coming.

 But now for some big news

 I'm really pleased to announce the availability of a new edition: Watson Analytics Professional. Watson Analytics Professional is designed to give you more of what makes Watson Analytics so great:

 More storage. 100 GB of storage to be exact.

 More uploads. You can upload data files as large as 500 columns by 10,000,000 rows.

 More Twitter. You can download 50,000 Tweets per data set. That's double the Twitter data available to Personal subscribers.

 And, there are new features

 Watson Analytics Professional also offers some brand new features:

 Multi-user support so workgroups can collaborate to discover and share insights.

 Connections to cloud storage services like Dropbox and Box so you can tap into the power of external data

 Enterprise data connectivity so you can use IBM Cognos report data, dashDB, DB2 and SQLDB for Bluemix for your analysis and decisions

 Data refresh so assets you've built with earlier versions of your data will reflect data changes.

 Storage add-on so you can analyze more data

 Question coach so you can take advantage of suggested questions and more when you tap Add

 Data refinement grid so you can refine your data once and have it reflected in whatever you tap next: Explore, Predict or Assemble.

 Best of all, you get all this for a reasonable monthly subscription rate.

 Not sure about all this?

 If you feel you're not quite ready for Watson Analytics Professional, that's okay. Some of these new features are now available in the free and personal editions. However, Watson Analytics Professional is the only edition to offer them all.

 What next?

 For a more detailed introduction to Watson Analytics Professional, view the video.

 To get started with any of the editions of Watson Analytics, go to www.watsonanalytics.com

 Want to learn more? IBM VisionGO 2015 is the place to get details about all the enhancements. Register here.

 Stay up to date on all the Watson Analytics news by visiting the Watson Analytics Community.
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 With the explosion of big data and the opportunities it presents to uncover new insights, the role of data scientist is emerging as the superhero of this generation, and possibly generations to come. As more organizations create data-driven strategies to innovate, compete, and capture value from massive amounts of information they collect and store, they have a critical need for technically strong analytical professionals who can engage in knowledge discovery and convert data to business value.

 While not tied exclusively to big data projects, the data scientist role complements these initiatives because of the increased breadth and depth of data they examine. But what exactly does a data scientist do? For people like me who are fairly new to the field – I am pursuing a Master of Science in Predictive Analytics – the concept of a data scientist sometimes gets shrouded in a semi-vigilante haze. You can almost envision a lone caped hero fighting against time to uncover precious gems of information from the endless ocean of data and save the town of "Enterpriseopolis" from making costly mistakes and sacrificing growth and revenue.

 Where a traditional data analyst may look only at data from a single source, such as a CRM system, a data scientist explores and examines data from multiple disparate sources. The data scientist will sift through all incoming data with the goal of discovering a previously hidden insight, which in turn can provide a competitive advantage or address an urgent business problem. A data scientist does not simply collect and report on data, but also looks at it from many angles, determines what it means, then recommends ways to apply the data.

 To become a successful data scientist, you obviously need a strong quantitative background and analytical and reasoning capabilities. In addition, you should have a combination of business and technical skills, including the ability to:

 Identify and correct for problems in imperfect data.

 Understand and perform statistical modeling and machine learning.

 Expand upon modern statistical learning methods.

 Translate business objectives into actionable analyses, and act on them independently.

 Communicate analytical results clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

 The one critical point to remember, however, is that no matter how strong your skills are, the role of data scientist is not a lone-wolf activity. Technology is moving faster than a speeding bullet, which is why data scientists can no longer limit themselves when it comes to professional growth and learning. To keep your skills sharp and stay on top of changes in the field, you need to be part of a larger practice community in which you can continuously collaborate and interact with other data scientists, share best practices and learn from the successes and failures of others.

 Now more than ever, aspiring and seasoned data scientists need to look for internal and external opportunities for knowledge sharing and development, such as Data Science Central and Kaggle, and forward-thinking organizations should encourage their data scientists to be active participants in these communities.

 Explore IBM resources for data scientists

 Stay on top of developments in analytics, hone your skills and share your wisdom with other predictive analytics experts in the new IBM Predictive Analytics Community, created by data scientists for data scientists. This community will be a one-stop shop for resources to help you gain a competitive edge and continuously improve your analytical skills, including:

 Blogs: Experts in predictive analytics share use cases and best practices for data mining, modeling and statistical analysis. Members are encouraged to post their own blogs and use cases, and share tips and tricks on how to make models faster and more accurate.

 Documentation and tutorials: Here is where you'll find SPSS product documentation and helpful tutorials to get you up and running quickly. You may also write your own tutorials.

 Downloads: This is where you'll find software trials and fix packs. Most importantly, it's home to a new library of predictive extensions and source code for the Open Source community. We encourage you to create new SPSS extensions and nodes and share them in our marketplace for SPSS.

 Videos: View a gallery of YouTube videos on IBM SPSS solutions, including marketing videos and tutorials. Have a video or tutorial of your own? Let us know and we'll add it to the library.

 Forums: We have incorporated a very powerful forum platform called dW Answers, which measures the reputation of each user by the quality of answers provided.

 Join the community today.

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 To illustrate how useful Watson Analytics can be when you're considering adding a new product or business line, today, I'll be returning to a role I once had in the past--that of someone who worked for a restaurant that was well-regarded for its excellent wines.

 In my hypothetical restaurant, the owner has decided to expand the business by creating his own wine label that he can sell in to customerso and he's asked for my help. I have a few leads for plots of land that he can rent out, depending on which grape he wants to grow . Here are 5 steps for using Watson Analytics to take the guesswork out of getting the label started, complete with actual examples of Watson Analytics at work.

 1. Review global trends for wine production and consumption in an interactive dashboard

 With Watson Analytics, it is easy for me to view all kinds of interesting information and statistics related to grape cultivation, wine production, wine consumption and more. The welcome screen gives me an option called Assemble, which provides me with dashboard templates that I can use to create a dashboard that highlights important insights from my data. I simply choose data that I want to analyze and drag it onto the dashboard template.

 With a few simple clicks, I have a colorful way to quickly spot interesting information or patterns in my data. Here I can see the world's biggest wine producers, per capita wine consumption and how much acreage is used to grow grapes for wine.

 A word cloud shows some of the common descriptors associated with different types of wine. Also available is the information that cost of shipping white wine appears to be lower than red. Toggling the grape filter shows the global acreage usage for that type of grape.

 A map explains the acreage breakdown by country. Along the bottom is a data tray, can be pulled up and then used to drag and drop different fields onto the dashboard for more analysis. This type of information can help me select which variety of grape I should plant to produce the wine.

 2. Understand what factors contribute to the highest quality of wine

 When I click Predict, add my data and create a workbook, Watson Analytics creates a spiral diagram.

 This one shows the fields that have the most influence on the target; they are closest to the center. The primary driver for quality wines in this case is alcohol, which is pretty intuitive. The next most important influencer for quality is the density of the wine itself. After dragging and dropping density into the spiral it becomes clear that density and alcohol are negatively correlated, so as the alcohol content increases, the density decreases. But I'm drawn to the insight which indicates a positive correlation between density and fixed acidity.

 3. Review related insights and underlying statistical details

 The related insights to the right of my model show that wines that have a slightly lower density actually have a higher quality score. Underlying statistical details that went into building this model are also shown, and I can create a line that demonstrates that as density increases, so too does the fixed acidity.

 4. Ask questions in plain language

 When you click Explore, Watson Analytics assesses your data and recommends questions it can help you answer, which is very helpful if you don't know where to start in the process of learning more from your data.

 You can also ask your own question, which is what I've done here. I typed. "What is the relationship between alcohol and fixed acidity by grape," and received an appropriate answer, along with related insights and visualizations.

 By selecting one of the insights, Watson Analytics has already chosen the ideal visualization to help answer my question, and I can see a breakdown of each data point in my data set.

 In the distribution that Watson Analytics has created, I can see the most common range of alcohol usage, which shows that using less alcohol creates a bump in fixed acidity content.

 5. Interact with your visualizations

 You can change Watson Analytics visualizations to further your understanding of your data. What I did here was toggle a cog and color the data points by grape variety. Here, I see that there's much more variation of fixed acidity in red wine when compared with white.

 But this still isn't really helping me answer the question of whether I should be producing red or white wine. So I filter on only the highest quality wines, rated 8 or 9 out of 10 in my survey. As the visualization comes back, it's very apparent that, to produce the highest quality wines, I should focus on producing varieties of white wine.

 Learn more

 To see the entire process in action, check out the video.

 If you're looking for tips, videos, resources, expert blogs and a discussion forum, all dedicated to Watson Analytics, the Watson Analytics Community is where you'll find them.

 If you haven't used Watson Analytics to explore your data or identify predictors for a target, now's a great time to get started at www.watsonanalytics.com.

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 Slowing the employee revolving door

 These days, building employee loyalty is tricky. Statistics show an increasingly mobile workforce, whereby employees leave companies after just a few years if they're not satisfied. If you're like many in HR, you want to keep your valuable employees.

 The most effective counter to employee attrition is discover why employees leave, but that's not always easy. The employees who move on to another company rarely state why before they go. Therefore, you have to rely on the analysis of all kinds of different data, such as gender, time employed, starting and ending salary, education and more. If your company is like most, that data is scattered all over your organization. You ask for it, and often you get much more than you need—and you're expected to weed through it, cull out the important parts and then study it so you can see if you can spot patterns. You might want someone skilled in data science to help, but they are few and far between.

 Wouldn't an easier way be great?

 You're tired of poring over spreadsheets and trying to tease out valuable insights. What you'd like is a quick and easy way to combine the employee data you have, get insights into employee attrition and discover the drivers of employees with staying power.

 Wouldn't it be great if you could upload your data, create a workbook and indicate attrition as a target for understanding which factors are most likely to affect it? Imagine what it would be like to have the data processed automatically and then be presented with information about how other fields statistically relate to that target. You could see that overtime is a strong predictor of whether an employee has stayed or left. You could then create an even stronger predictive model by combining fields to see how job role and performance evaluation relate to employees who have left. Suppose you then were able to view a word cloud that shows the relationships and associations between each of the fields or a chart that shows the proportion of employees who have left and how they differ by job role.

 Let's dig even deeper

 Let's go even further with this. In our scenario, because you have access to all of the fields in your original spreadsheet, without switching to another data set, you can choose another target to understand a different relationship, such as which fields are related to the year since last promotion. You can grab an object and drag it onto the center of your plotted graph and see that the length of time in the company and personal income are important in relation to promoted employees.

 If this seems like a pie-chart-in-the-sky scenario, it isn't. You can do all this and more with Watson Analytics.

 With Watson Analytics, so much is humanly possible

 Watson Analytics provides you with the capabilities you need to understand employee attrition and determine why some employees leave your company and others stay. You can start with a spreadsheet and in moments have a list of interesting information that you can understand. Your data is processed for you, and in a single workspace, you can determine the factors that influence a target, such as attrition, and even determine the strength of their correlation.

 Watson Analytics also takes insights that might seem obvious—people who work extra hours and aren't rewarded tend to leave and commission-based positions such as sales have higher churn—and quantifies them in reliable ways. This quantification enables more targeted actions and better decisions about how to keep valuable employees.

 Learn more

 If you would like to see Watson Analytics in action, check out this video on using Watson Analytics to understand why employees leave.

 For the latest information about Watson Analytics, including tips, use case blogs, videos, product discussions and support, join me, along with product experts and users, in the Watson Analytics Community.

 And, if you haven't used Watson Analytics yet, today's a great day to start. Visit us at www.watsonanalytics.com
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 When it comes to return on your analytical investment, it's more important than ever to have the right combination of tools to help you extract meaning from masses of data, and use that knowledge to improve the quality and effectiveness of your decisions. But where do you start?

 Pairing predictive analytics and prescriptive analytics can generate powerful decision-making insights that can give you a competitive edge.

 Through 2015, predictive and prescriptive analytics will be incorporated into less than 25% of business analytics projects, but will deliver at least 50% of the business value.  (Gartner, Hype Cycle for Content and Social Analytics, August 2014)

 Predictive analytics utilizes a variety of proven techniques to look at data about the past, detect patterns or relationships, and then make projections about the future. For example, a wireless phone company analyzing transactional data, web analytics and customer service history may detect that a long-time customer shows signs of dissatisfaction, and is likely to take their business to a competitor.

 Unfortunately, knowing what might happen is no longer enough to keep your organization competitive. As customers demand better products and service, and more personalized interactions, you need to know not only what might happen next, but what to do about it when it actually happens. The wireless phone company can take several possible actions to retain the customer – but which decision is the best one?

 That's where prescriptive analytics enters the picture. Prescriptive analytics goes beyond predictive models by recommending one or more courses of action, based on company goals and desired outcomes. The wireless firm could offer the customer a discount on a related product or service she is likely to purchase, throw in a free month of service, offer her the new customer rate, or any of several other options. Using prescriptive analytics, the company can see which decision will have the best outcome for the business.

 It's easy to see why predictive and prescriptive analytics are complementary technologies that can work together to improve outcomes for your organization. So, what's the next step?

 Learn more

 Join us for Charting Your Analytical Future Webinar - From Insight to Action: Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics from IBM  at 11:00 a.m. ET on May 5, 2015. In this 30-minute presentation, Mikhail Lakirovich, Product Marketing Manager for IBM Predictive Analytics, will discuss how:

 • IBM SPSS Predictive Analytics can help you uncover patterns and trends in your data.

 • IBM Decision Optimization allows you to incorporate your insights into optimal decisions.

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 In my previous blogs I discussed the benefits of using IBM SPSS Modeler for developing predictive analytics models. As an IBMer, it was only natural for me to use this tool for my work. But what about other folks who are not sure what solutions would help them build robust predictive models with ease? For example, what about my fellow classmates in the MS in Predictive Analytics program, and other users who are not sure what product they should use for their analytics needs?

 My answer to this is quite simple. When I started to look for a new car, I went on the CarMax website, because I trusted their authoritative opinion, and detailed ratings and information on model safety and performance. And when it comes to understanding what predictive analytics solution to consider, the logicaI source for information is Forrester Research, which just released the Forrester WaveTM: Big Data Predictive Analytics Solutions, Q2 2015. In this report, Forrester evaluates 13 big data predictive analytics solution vendors, including IBM, against 45 criteria including architecture, analysis, data, model management and usability.

 The report offers a great overview of predictive analytics and its capabilities for anyone who is thinking about predictive analytics but isn't sure where to start. It also explains the CRISP-DM methodology for conducting predictive analytics, which begins with understanding data and asking the right questions. As the saying goes, "garbage in, garbage out," and answers are only as insightful as the questions we ask.

 Once the methodology is established and the right questions are determined, the next step is to decide what tool to use for the analytics process.The Forrester report goes into a great discussion of the current product offerings, strategy and vendor market presence. Not surprisingly, IBM, with its breadth and scope of solutions and tools, has been called out as one of the Leaders, and achieved the overall high score in the strategy category.

 You can even obtain a downloadable Excel tool from the Forrester website based on the Wave model, which you can customize to your specifications and use to create a custom vendor shortlist.

 So, whether you are just getting started with predictive analytics, or are an expert data scientist deciding on what tool you should use next, check out the Forrester WaveTM: Big Data Predictive Analytics Solutions, Q2 2015 and learn why IBM has emerged as one of the Leaders in this space.

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 It's no secret that advances in technology have dramatically improved the way we work, communicate and collaborate. Analytics, the cloud, new systems for personal engagement and a tech savvy workforce have redrawn traditional boundaries, hierarchies, processes and rules. In addition, the voice of the individual as a consumer, employee or simply global member of society is as strong as it's ever been.

 Data, data everywhere

 At the heart of all this activity and technology is data. Ginni Romerty, IBM's CEO, has declared data to be the world's newest natural resource. When I think of natural resources, I immediately think of fuel. Then, it all makes sense to me. In today's world economy, data is the fuel.

 The thing about fuel is that it's only part of the story. Fuel on its own is not as valuable unless it can run something, quite often an engine. So, if data is fuel, what is the engine of the economy? That answer is insight. It's the engine that's driving today's economy.

 Innovations for the new insight economy

 To help our clients thrive in the new insight economy, IBM is continually developing new innovations in transformational technologies to help organizations of all sizes discover new ways to:

 Collect, use and share all their data and insights

 Collaborate on the most poignant and relevant facts

 Speed consensus and decisions to ultimately accelerate the pace of business.

 These new innovations include Watson Analytics, IBM's cloud analytics service that enables practically anyone to use advanced analytics capabilities to understand data and act on fact-based insights.

 Enter Watson Analytics

 Watson Analytics is one of IBM's new ways to work, modernizing how business teams make decisions and helping to accelerate the pace of business by

 Bringing all relevant data to the table, both from inside and outside organizations so that no perspective is overlooked. Taking advantage of the IBM and Twitter partnership, Watson Analytics is making sure the voice of the market is being heard.

 Encouraging the use of collaboration, data, evidence and facts to come up with ideas that are aligned throughout the organization. Your workgroups and their team members can share data and insights.

 Guiding conversations toward the right issues. Recommendations for action help shut out the extraneous noise so you can focus on what you need to get your job done,

 Hungry for more?

 If you would like to learn more about how Watson Analytics and other IBM solutions, such as IBM Verse, offer new ways to work in the new insight economy, I invite you to join an IBM Signature Moment livestream event from London on April 1, 2015 at 3 p.m. British Standard Time.

 To register, click here.

 If you aren't using Watson Analytics yet, you can get started here: www.watsonanalytics.com

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 Predictive analytics is the secret to not only surviving but thriving in today's business environment. But what does it mean to do analytics at scale? In this post, Jane Hendricks, Portfolio Marketing Manager, IBM Predictive Analytics, talks about IBM's approach.

 Earlier this month I had the pleasure of co-presenting the webinar "Analytics at Scale: What You Need to Know"  with Fern Halper, TDWI Research Director. Attendees learned about the state of the market for analytics at scale, and how IBM can help organizations overcome the challenges of scalability.

 You may be wondering how this relates to you and your organization. After all, analytics are analytics, right? And scale is just for "the big guys." The truth is that whether you are working with a single Excel file or terabytes of data, the right capabilities can help you transform any amount of data into a strategic asset.

 Predictive analytics a top priority

 Even if your organization isn't thinking big, you already know that predictive analytics will be critical to your organization's success. A poll conducted during the webinar revealed that 42 percent of respondents are interested in predictive analytics, while another 22 percent are planning to put it into action this year.

 Those numbers demonstrate that everyone wants to be able to use their data – whether big, medium or small – to reveal new opportunities, emerging threats, potential innovation and clues to future customer behavior.

 View the webinar

 How IBM approaches analytics at scale

 IBM's approach to developing analytics at scale is defined by three guiding principles.

  Engaging.  We build analytics for all users. Our solutions address the needs of business users but without sacrificing the depth and breadth of capabilities experts require. When users start working with "real" big data, like Hadoop, and need more power, such as R or Python, we make it accessible through scripting and customization. This offers scale in terms of who can apply the technology – and in a world characterized by a scarce supply of analytical talent and expertise, that is critical.

  Breakthrough. We continually push the envelope. We recently announced new features in our flagship products, including analytical capabilities for geospatial data, new algorithms, and expanded options for adopting analytics on the cloud as a SaaS model or through IBM Bluemix.

  Pervasive.  We make sure you can apply analytics to decisions that count—decisions made by people and systems at the point of impact that directly affect your business' direction. These decisions can often have more impact than strategic decisions made in boardrooms based on endless charts and presentations.

 View "Analytics at Scale: What You Need to Know" on demand.

 Learn more

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 Hadoop and Beyond: Unlock Insights in Your Big Data with Predictive Analytics - View on demand

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 Help our research partner, Ventana Research, gain insights into the next generation of predictive analytics. Tell us about the methods you are using or planning to use in your organization--and receive a $5 Amazon gift certificate and a free copy of the survey findings.

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 Payment delays dampen accounts receivable

 No one benefits when someone does not pay their accounts on time. However, in finance, outstanding accounts receivable is especially a burden. It's difficult to plan, forecast and plan financial performance when you cannot count on regular payments.
 You'd like to be able to figure out those trouble spots by analyzing data and getting the insights that enable you to determine who might be late and why. But, trying to collect is a full time job and who has the time to wait for someone in IT to analyze payment histories and data when another day passes with accounts unpaid.

 Consider the possibilities of better informed accounts receivable

 How's this for a scenario? You have raw data from all of your customers that spans five different countries and suddenly you're able to use it to speed up the receipt of outstanding accounts receivable. You upload the data to a website, click add, drag the customer data into a drop zone, and get a quality score that lets you know that your data quality is good.

 You click Predict and set a target that you want to explore—Days Late. Almost instantly, a spiral diagram shows patterns and relationships between your targets and their major predictors, or the factors that are most likely to influence your target. You see that the top predictor of Days Late is Customer ID. This makes sense because certain customers are habitually late in paying their bills. Another helpful predictor is Paperless Bill; electronic billing appears to prompts customers to pay sooner. However, Invoice Amount is also a predictor; perhaps larger bills are being put off.

 More than possibilities—an absolute

 With IBM Watson Analytics, the possibilities become absolutes. You can start with data and in moments get a list of possible influencers of delayed payments. With just a few clicks, you have ideas for improving payments such as paperless billing for habitually late customers and reexamining the billing cycle for customers with high invoice amounts.

 And the best part of it all? You can sign up and use Watson Analytics for free (although certain restrictions apply).

 If you haven't tried Watson Analytics yet, what are you waiting for? Get started at watsonanalytics.com

 To learn more about how Watson Analytics can help you find patterns in your account payment history, view the video: http://ibm.co/1ARHzO0

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 Data Analysts, Predictive Modelers, Data Scientists, Data Miners, and all other types of analytic professionals, students, and academics: Please participate in the 2015 Rexer Analytics Data Miner Survey.

 Survey Link: www.rexeranalytics.com/Data-Miner-Survey-2015-Intro.html
 Access Code: 9R3UN4 — It is OK to share this Access Code with others: It can be used by multiple people.

 Survey results will be unveiled at the Fall-2015 Boston Predictive Analytics World event.

 Rexer Analytics has been conducting the Data Miner Survey since 2007. Each survey explores the analytic behaviors, views and preferences of data miners and analytic professionals. Over 1200 people from around the globe participated in the 2013 survey. Summary reports (40 page PDFs) from previous surveys are available FREE to everyone who requests them by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com. Also, highlights of earlier Data Miner Surveys are available at www.rexeranalytics.com/Data-Miner-Survey-Results-2013.html, including best practices shared by respondents on analytic success measurement, overcoming data mining challenges, and other topics. The FREE Summary Report for this 2015 Data Miner Survey will be available to everyone Fall-2015.

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 Nexus - nex·us -ˈneksəs/ : the central and most important point or place

 There is a lot of buzz these days about the "Nexus of Forces." This rare event is caused by the convergence of four highly disruptive technology trends at once, and it promises to transform the way businesses operate.

 A concept developed by analyst firm Gartner Inc., the Nexus of Forces describes how the convergence of social media, mobile technology, cloud computing and data is creating new business opportunities.

 Although each of these trends is innovative and disruptive on its own, together they are revolutionizing business. Gartner predicts that they are poised to become the basis for the technology platform of the future.

 In this newsletter featuring research from Gartner (Gartner, How Midsize Enterprises Can Take Full Advantage of the Nexus of Forces, James A. Browning, 3 February 2014), you'll learn more about the "Nexus of Forces," and how IBM is shaping its midmarket business analytics portfolio to help organizations harness these powerful market trends for competitive advantage.

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Although there are no definitive chronicles on the subject, it seems safe to say that the entire history of opera had never before included the word "jiveass" -- that is, until it was included in "Leaves of Greens," an opera performed by University of Mississippi students in Oxford on Sunday morning.
The odd tone of the lyrics mirrored the opera's odd subject matter: It was a three-part oratorio devoted entirely to collard greens, a trippy triptych for food and music enthusiasts alike.
When she first got an e-mail suggesting "a vegetable opera," Amanda Johnston, 40, an assistant music professor, pianist and music director for the opera theater at Ole Miss, was wary. Then she realized the broad cache of Southern literature that mentions collards, from writers including William Faulkner and Mark Twain.
She suggested to the Southern Foodways Alliance, which commissioned the work for its annual symposium, that a junior music major, Price Walden, 20, create the opera. He pored through Leaves of Greens: the Collard Poems, a poetry collection published in 1984 by a North Carolina collard festival.
He needed the help. Walden, from Booneville, Miss., eats collards rarely, pretty much only during holiday trips to his grandmother's house. And Johnston, a recent Canadian immigrant, has never eaten collards.
"It's not like there's a lot of precedent," said Johnston. "So we had a lot of license."
After a month of boiling down the right lyrics, Walden took another month and a half to pair them with his own musical compositions. A dozen students began rehearsals in late September.
The performance lasted about half an hour and took place in the Lyric Theater, on Oxford's famed town square. Dressed in modest costumes of greens, browns and burgundy in a style that could be called "sharecropper chic," the students mostly sang a cappella but were also accompanied by a vibraphone and Johnston on piano.
They sang as a choir, as well as in solos, duets and trios.
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"You know who used to wear a collard in his lapel just like a proud carnation?" went one riff, which continued, "Thelonious Sphere Monk from North Carolina is who. I like to imagine some hotstuff jazz critic -- maybe Leonard Feather or another jiveass -- asking, 'Say Monk, what is that thing you've got on?' And Thelonious replies: 'You looking at my sole credentials.' "
In an earnest benediction on collards immediately before the opera, Ed Davis, the speaker, said, "Collards are proof we are loved" to sincere nods in the audience of about 200; they gave the opera a standing ovation when it finished.
"It's been absolutely surreal," said Walden, while signing program bulletins for audience members after the show. ("I know I'll see you in New York City, at the Met," gushed one from Seattle.)
He countered skepticism about the production in a composer's note that read, in part: "My first instinct was to immediately run the other way. However, the more I thought about it, the better the idea seemed to me. The Southern tradition is full of things that are grandiose and larger-than-life; why not apply that notion to such a peculiar and beloved vegetable?"
"I thought it would be kooky, like a musical," said Nancie McDermott, 59, a cookbook author from North Carolina. "But I was so moved I'm still choked up. It touched so many notes of my childhood. It was familiar and great and like the best part of church."
She suddenly pressed her palm against her chest. "Ooh," she realized, "I just had church."
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From age to age the South has hollered the praises of the toothsome collard. Our parents' precepts we have follered and countless messes we have swallered. When times were hard, a single dollar'd buy ample potfulls of the collard. And any help nutrition scholar'd give highest rating to the collard. Full many a happy hog has wallered in luscious leaves of wilting collard. Yes, keep your cordon bleu -- by Gollard! I'd trade it all for one big collard!
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The Junction's November 2012 live music, club and comedy guide. Featuring music from Spiritualized, The Fiver: Unplugged, Mystery Jets, Two Gallants, Tegan and Sara, Tom McRae, Melingo and Alabama 3. Clubs including Spoonfed, White Noise, Salon Rouge and Stink Like Sock. And comedy from Jesterlarf, Andrew Lawrence, Rob Rouse, Festival of the Spoken Nerd Frisky and Mannish, Mark Thomas and MANY MORE!!!
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