Is Big Data Causing a Big Brother System in Healthcare?
As we approach the landmark Supreme Court decision next month of whether Obamacare’s individual mandate for health insurance is constitutional…
Outlier Detection in Two Review Articles (Part 1)
If you need to read two review articles about outlier detection, the first one is…Outlier Detection: A SurveyThe first one,…
Analytics for Creating More Choices
Choice covers both the capacity to control people and events, and an underlying belief in the possibility of such control.…
How Business Analytics Can Lead to That ‘Aha’ Moment
Does your company know why it does what it does? Does it have a clear sense of the products and…
Kronos Supercharges Workforce Analytics with New Technology
Adoption of workforce analytics is increasing as organizations seek to recruit and retain employees more effectively and ensure that their…
Mariano Rivera’s Baseball Prowess, Illustrated with R
Kevin Quealy, graphics editor at the New York Times, has published another fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how the Times creates data…
Forrester’s Customer Experience Forum 2012
For decades, companies have been paying lip service to the idea of delighting customers, while disappointing them in every channel.…
A Million Monkeys Demonstrate the Power of Hadoop
There are many great use cases for Apache Hadoop, the open source framework for scalable, reliable, and distributed computing on…
Text Analytics, The Difficult Future You Can’t Avoid
Sentiment Analysis is a terribly difficult problem. The problem is in defining the problem - the input is the problem…
Big Data Will Need 1.5 Million Data Scientists | Dice
How many of these jobs can be performed by bots (computer programs)? Here's the story:Big Data efforts have a problem…
