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The Wall Street Journal asked Ben Alamar, the founding editor of the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, to build a statistical model of the changes.

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By using a discovery platform they were able to use a combination of SQL, text, statistics, and time-series analysis to get a more accurate customer churn prediction model.

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Dell, with a history of managing a great supply chain and relatively little innovation in management or analysis software, has the longest road to travel to this new model.

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To see why this sort of analysis is so important, consider the following oversimplified model.

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