Traditional business intelligence (and data mining) software does a very good job of showing you where you’ve been. By contrast, predictive analytics uses data patterns to make forward-looking predictions that guide you to where you should go...
We’ve organized data science blogs across eight different categories: Machine learning, Hadoop, R, Python, business intelligence, data visualization, statistics, and a general data science bucket. Data about their reader count comes from Feedly. This is a work...
In the world of IT, we seem to fall victim to a new technology “siren’s song” approximately every five years. The most recent of these new irresistible forces is Big Data. While our industry has been talking...
Building predictive models has come to seem like one of the more glamorous jobs in business intelligence and analytics. Successful, high-profile predictive modelers like Nate Silver, founder of the ESPN blog FiveThirtyEight, and Rayid Ghani, chief data...
Today’s companies have the potential to benefit from incredibly large amounts of data. To shake off the mystery of this “Big Data,” it’s useful to know its history. In the not-so-distant past, firms tracked their own internal...
Microsoft promised to bring analytics to a billion screens last February when it finally launched Power BI for Office 365. Starting this week, Office 365 users will be able to do both data mining and predictive forecasting....