Interactive Analysis Tools Comparison: R Language, Matlab, esProc, SAS, SPSS, Excel, and SQL
The interactive analysis is a circular analytics procedure comprising assumption, verification, and calibration by the analyst to achieve the fuzzy…
The 6 Worst Market Research Mistakes #MRX
Sigh, not only are the colours horrid, this 3d pie chart completely misconstrues the values it is trying to represent.…
How the Cloud is Changing the Data Center’s Bad Reputation for Energy Inefficiency
A few weeks ago, a New York Time’s article, the first in a series about cloud computing, The Cloud Factories:…
Big Data Insights Through Predictive Analytics, Open Standards and Cloud Computing
Organizations increasingly recognize the value that predictive analytics and big data offer to their business. The complexity of development, integration,…
Forecasting: Evaluation Criteria
To continue our series on forecasting, let’s discuss one of the varying factors: the evaluation criteria. In classification, the percentage…
Sticking vs Backsliding – It Is So Sad
Have you ever been frustrated by witnessing a good decision be reversed and falling back to old ways of doing…
8 Reasons Why Embedded Business Intelligence Beats DIY
We all have THAT friend. You know the one. He never asks for help, refuses to concede when even his…
Big Data in Insurance – Is the Industry Ready to Take Advantage?
The need for information has created this disruptive nomenclature that has taken the world of data by storm. This revolutionary…
The Emerging Big Data Ecosystem
Slowly but surely, big data is becoming mainstream. Of course, if you listened only to the hype from analysts and…
Michigan Cyber Initiative Reports ‘People’ as Weakest Link in IT Security
Not sure where I was last year, but I somehow missed the entire Michigan Cyber Initiative launched by the State…