Modern businesses all need learn how to swim at the sea of big data, to ride the wave, or avoid obstacles, after being through 5 Ws + 1H Big Data Navigation, some Olympic level data champions may gain the insights others can not perceive: 

1. Customer Insight

• Know What Customers Need Before They know…

Big Data Vendor Landscape

Companies, products, and technologies included in the Big Data Landscape:

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I recently attended a Light Reading Marketing Roundtable event where Phil Harvey, Light Reading's Editor-in-Chief, discussed the top trends he's seeing in the Communications industry.



I was expecting him to go into traditional, hardware-based trends such as the emergence of 4G/LTE equipment, packet optical networking, and 100 Gbps fiber-optic transmission. These technologies were mentioned, but…

Search Engine Optimization, abbreviated as SEO. Today’s Time is very important that you hire competitive professional SEO services. Online business can improve their organic ranks and attract more web traffic. SEO companies now implement special techniques that would help a website achieve better rank against local search. This is known as local SEO services.



SEO is the process of improving the visibility of a website and more…

Weekly digest from Data Science Central, Analytic Talent and Analytic Bridge:

1. Time to shift your career aspiration from Management Consulting to Analytics!…

Medicaid is a USA government run healthcare program for the poor, elderly and disabled, which is jointly funded by the states and the federal government

Predictive Analytics at NU

Last March I started taking classes at Northwestern University with the goal of obtaining a Master's in Predictive Analytics.  I've almost completed my third course.  This newsletter summarizes why I chose the program and a few of the topics I've explored to date.

My opinion: this big data / data science technology - to track your vehicle movements to alert you of an imminent crash or to tell you that you drive too fast -  will create many false positives resulting in more collisions for a number of drivers (maybe for 10% of all drivers who outperform automated driving). But it can really help dumb drivers. So,…

Interesting article published in the NewYorkTimes, discussing how statistical scores are regulated by the government and how they could be used in different contexts. They discuss a company, eBureau, who (they claim) created new types of scores.

A few highlights:…

The Hadoop stack includes more than a dozen components, or subprojects, that are complex to deploy and manage. Installation, configuration and production deployment at scale is challenging.

The main components…

Author: Rahul Nawab, Co- founder, IQR Analytics and Promoter, ADSA (Academy for Decision Science and Analytics).

Educating savvy and business-minded Amdavadis on the importance of numbers and analytics in your business is like teaching the properties of sand to someone in the desert, but here is my effort anyway.

The simplest definition of analytics is "the science of analysis." However, a practical definition would be how an entity, e.g., a business, arrives…

Weekly digest from Data Science Central, Analytic Talent and Analytic Bridge:

1. Why are clinical trials failing?…

The project was about click fraud detection. Interested about how to jump-start a career as a data science / big data consultant? Read the proposal, check out

• how much and how I charge (I'm based in Seattle, WA),
• and how I split…

Please share your opinion and let us know how to make better predictions for the following problems. Also how do you define better?

1. Earthquake time and intensity forecasts
2. Solar flares time and intensity…

If you’re a local business owner with a Google presence, you’ve undoubtedly heard of the many changes that have affected the world’s favorite search engine over the last few months, such as the fact that Google Places has given way to the far more dynamic Google+ Local. But even for business owners who keep up with industry news, Google’s new local search features could be confusing, so let’s break them down right here;…

When your grocery store bill is based on your profile...or another way for retail companies to optimize ROI via customized pricing (something all consultants, merchants and sales people have been doing for thousands of years, so it's not really new stuff)

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Weekly digest from Data Science Central, Analytic Talent and Analytic Bridge:

1. Password and hijacked email dataset for you to test your data science skills…

Today Analytics is the heart of a Business. Companies are challenged with a high volume and broad array of data which requires active and effective analysis. Analysis can help them make enhanced and improved business decisions, and hence help the business to maintain profitability. "Companies need to compete on the basis of key business processes, and how they optimize these processes with analytics," says Thomas Davenport, professor and director of research, Babson College,…

The Duhem-Quine thesis and experimental economics A reinterpretation

Morten Søberg

Abstract:

The Duhem-Quine thesis asserts that any empirical evaluation of a theory is in fact a composite test of several interconnected hypotheses. Recalcitrant evidence signals falsity within the conjunction of hypotheses, but logic alone cannot pinpoint the individual element(s) inside the theoretical cluster responsible for a false prediction. This paper…