Click to learn more about author Matthew Gierc. Self-service BI. Ad hoc analysis. Exploratory data analysis. This is the holy grail that companies are looking for, right? At least that’s what the BI dashboard vendors are telling us. But do these tools really help organizations? In the short-term, yes. But the long-term effects of repeated Ad […]
Making the Best Use of Your Business Intelligence Solution
Click to learn more about authors Tejasvi Addagada and Gopi Maren. Every day organizations rely on reports to understand information in their day-to-day operational and strategic decisions. For all the dashboards or score-cards, today’s data is sourced from distributed and disparate sources of data. When we hear from someone in the organization that “My reports […]
Back to School: Data Literacy and an Urgent Reason to Study Data
Click to learn more about author Carie Lemack. A literate society is not necessarily a numerate one. Where one is absent, the other is almost always lacking, because it is hard to appreciate—never mind articulate—the fullness of an idea without a full vocabulary. Expanding that vocabulary must be a national priority, beginning in primary and secondary […]
Data Science in 90 Seconds: Naive Bayes
Click to learn more about video blogger Laura Kahn. This is Lesson 7 in the Data Science in 90 Seconds video blog series from host Laura Kahn. The series covers some of the most prominent questions in Data Science such as Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, K-Means Clustering, Naive Bayes, Decision Trees and Random Forests, Ridge Regression, […]
Sophisticated Teams Pave the Way for Machine Learning
Click to learn more about author Ben Lorica. Machine Learning (ML) use in production dates back about 20 years. Leo Breiman chronicled a sea change in Data Analytics in the notable 2001 paper, “The Two Cultures,” based on the introduction of Machine Learning models at scale during the dot-com boom. Even so, it took two […]
All Aboard the Prescriptive Analytics Express
Click to learn more about author Joe deBuzna. Racing down the tracks with the equivalent of 170 Boeing 747s in tow, the 440,000 pound (200,000kg) next-generation locomotive is about to break. Some of the hundreds of sensors pulling in over 150,000 data points per minute show one of the train’s two turbochargers (yes, some trains have turbochargers) is starting […]
Role of Data Science in Cyber Security
Click to learn more about author Ashish Trikha. Modern Data Science, in its most fundamental form, is all about understanding. It involves studying, processing, and extracting valuable insights from a set of information. Though the word and process have been around for several decades, it was primarily a subset of computer science. Today, it has […]
The Power of Prediction
Click to learn more about author Sanjeev Agrawal. Improving operational efficiency through Data Analytics boils down to applying Predictive Analytics to improve planning and execution of key care delivery processes, chief among them resource utilization, staff schedules, and patient admittance and discharge. When this is done right, providers see an increase in patient access (accommodation of […]
Establish a Solid Foundation for Advanced Analytics
Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. As Advanced Analytics and Self-Serve, Augmented Analytics tools make their way into the average enterprise, the average organization struggles to quantify the effects and, moreover, to understand and leverage the changes within the business. Every company is different and the impact of these types of tools will be […]
How Big Data Can Improve Data Visualizations and Responsiveness
Click to learn more about author Gilad David Maayan. Modern web design is all about responsiveness, meaning the degree to which designers or webmasters optimize web pages for browsing and navigation across a range of different devices. Mobile traffic accounted for 52.64 percent of total online traffic during 2017, and websites that are not responsive […]