In big data terms, every human being is a rich resource. Students, from enrollment to grades to the clubs they join, generate as much data as any…
Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment phase. Here’s a chart (from this excellent book by Carlota Perez via Fred Wilson) showing the four previous…
Online education is certainly not new. But what about classes with tens of thousands of students, participating from locations all over the world? (more…)
The perception among organizations over the past five years is that more quantitative methods, with or without Big Data, are critical to success. The problem is that…
Organizations are awash in big data, opening up huge opportunities to understand and predict customer preferences and market growth. (more…)
IBM and Universities 'Picture Story' -- A Curriculum of Analytics: (more…)
Revolution Analytics CEO Norman Nie sat down with Cassimir Medford from Business Agility to talk about the problems business today face with respect to Big Data. The two…
The University of Washington is holding a web-based course which will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn about financial modeling with R: (more…)
We always hear about the benefits of analytics done correctly and used well. What we don’t hear as often are the dire consequences of analytics done poorly…
I participated recently as a panelist in a Business Intelligence Summit at the University of Akron as they had identified a gap that their graduates had when entering…
