In the previous post the first steps were given for building the basis for trading forex. Now it is time…
In the Introduction to his book “R for SAS and SPSS Users” (Springer 2009) Robert Muenchen offers ten reasons for…
For the last couple of years, Mexico has been in the midst of an escalating drug war, with violent crime…
When R is brought up as a possibility for doing statistics or data mining or any sort of predictive analytics among…
Sometimes, in this world of magical analytics and open source software, the most basic stuff doesn’t get done. Today, we’ll…
According to internet lore, there's a mathematical equation that governs the lower bound for the socially acceptable age of a…
I've been traveling for the past few days (for the R/Finance 2010 conference in Chicago), so I'd missed much of…
Tomislav Hengl of the University of Amsterdam has published new book, A Practical Guide to Geostatistical Mapping. It's jam-packed with 291…
Physicist and weather scientist Joe Wheatley used R to design and create a useful visual representation of how drought affects…
Analyst David Stodder at Intelligent Enterprise also noted the activity around R at the recent Predictive Analytics World conference in San…
The above diagram was compiled by Florence Nightingale, who was – according to The Font – “a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of…
At a time in our history when there is more data than ever before, the overwhelming majority of companies ...
Money Out the Window It’s scary to think about the dollars involved, but with over 70% of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing projects failing it is surprising…
I always make the point that data is everywhere – and that a lot of it is free.
The internet and ecommerce world offers endless possibilities to use customer analytics and big data ..
