You were taught and told through books, teachers, websites and your software that your AR model coefficient can't be outside the -1…

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This link will take you to a great YouTube Video on the 5 classes of databases and the differences in the major players in the NoSQL market.

The Database Revolution

And here are some conclusions I took away from the presentation.

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I wanted to share this link with members on Analytic Bridge - it represents a series of articles, insights and conclusions drawn about Big Data Technology, Trends and Success:

http://www.scoop.it/t/big-data-technology-applications-and-analytics

Here's a comment I posted about the Article entitled "The Role of the Data Scientist in Big Data" from Tech Republic. There are others on the page.    "As…

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We call it data driven journalism (DDJ) nowadays, and we used to call it computer assisted reporting. Did only the name change or has there been a more profound change in this set of skills and methods?

I talk a bit about this in the data journalism chapter of the Online Journalism Handbook. I think it’s a qualitative and…

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If you've ever learned to play an instrument, at some point an instructor will give you a sheet of music that you've never seen before and ask you to play it.  It is a very objective way to assess one's skill level and the act of playing unseen music is called sight reading.

Wikipedia on Sight Reading

I've often wanted to use this technique to quantify a candidate's ability to analyze data.  We…

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When it comes to Big Data, one of the largest data sets in the world is the Internet. Thanks to Google, the Internet is essentially indexed as though it were a massive database. Consequently, the world’s 1.9 billion Internet users are conditioned to search, relying on Google or other search engines to find the answers they are looking for. The problem with the Google approach to Big Data is: What if you don’t know what question to ask?

That is the real challenge [and…

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Written By Quentin McMullen

In 1986 the Beastie Boys released their classic debut album, License to Ill, and the last track posed a question: “What’s the time?”  The Beasties answered with an anthem, “It’s time to get ill.”  I think Peter Crawford, SAS programmer extraordinaire, would have answered more simply.  What time is it?  It’s %now.

%Now – a Timestamp Macro

%Now generates a timestamp.   It’s a simple SAS macro, but despite its simplicity, it…

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I was recently invited to join a conference related to predictive ananlytics. I oddly find that I am one of the few people that will speak about predictive modeling in the B2B market. If ever there is any development needed in our field - predictive modeling's application in the wholesale/ Business to business market is the key. Think about the following: The data we have is boardly categorized into: client's data and your firm's or other firms' transaction /web browsing data.

To me,…

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Last week while searching for a code snippet through several folders of information, I realized that the code was still on my old computer ... ugh! One of my weekend projects was to organize my code examples somewhere -  I'm going to try Evernote, which I have been using to organize other items. Evernote uses an elephant for it's mascot - because elephants never forget. That's what I need!

Easy to Organize and Find Code…

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A Social Network is a theoretical construction useful in the social sciences to study social relationships.

 

Social network analysis refers to methods used to analyze social networks, social structures made up of individuals or organizations, which are connected by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, common interest, financial exchange, or relationships of beliefs, etc.…

 

Facing this new domain I have make a personal…

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• Exploring The Art and Science of Visual of Analysis
• 15 great big data articles from top news…

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How big data is shaping mobile user expectations

 

By Jeff Hasen

Hipcricket Chief Marketing Officer, Thought Leader (ART+DATA) Institute and author of Mobilized Marketing: Driving Sales, Engagement, and Loyalty…

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It has been very busy these days as I am also involved generating the performance report of individual bankers for the region- by program- one by one! It is true that our business intelligence has the authority and technology to report out business hence naturally showing them by individual sales for appraisal purpose.



Convincing HR to do this work is like asking social workers to do actuarial works. One is more humane and in depth about someone, another involves more calculation and… Continue

Dear friends,

Greetings of the day!

I am happy to inform you that I am launching a new journal entitled "International Journal of Business Analytics and Intelligence" along with Publishing India group. 

You can browse through the home page of the journal at http://www.manuscript.publishingindia.com/index.php/IJBAI 

The journal aims to incorporate both the practitioners’ and the…

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Dear all,

hii .. I want to know there is any instrument for measuring uniqueness of a product.