How Amazon Uses Big Data to Boost Its Performance
Amazon is a big data giant, which is why I want to…
How Data Will Help Create More Sustainable Communities
While the potential economic benefits of data are increasingly understood, there are many potential…
Finance Analytics Require Training to Improve
Analytics has long been a core discipline of Finance, applied to analysis…
Today’s Don Draper: Relying on Data Not Scotch for Inspiration
I don't need a glass of single-malt for my creative juices to…
Why Overfitting is More Dangerous than Just Poor Accuracy [PART 2]
In Part I, I explained one problem with overfitting the data: In Part…
Exploring Big Data Analytics on Microsoft SharePoint
Business intelligence is a critical part of the modern day decision making…
Cryptography Is Fun, But Your Business Calls for Encryption
While it’s pretty impressive that Nicolas Cage found a map on the…
Learning to Predict Death with Big Data
Death. Many of the discussions around data revolve around death. These discussions…
Why Overfitting is More Dangerous than Just Poor Accuracy [PART 1]
Arguably, the most important safeguard in building predictive models is complexity regularization…
Requirements for Becoming a Strategic Chief Risk Officer
The proliferation of chief “something” officer (CxO) titles over the past decades…