Click here to learn more about author Andrew Sohn. The Internet of Things (IoT) is generating countless numbers of interactions between devices every day—in all kinds of different ways. But the consequences of these interactions aren’t about the Internet or the things at all. What IoT is all about is data. The lifecycle of an […]
Frequencies in R — Part 2
Click here to learn more about author Steve Miller. In last month’s blog, I compared several functions that compute frequencies and crosstabs in R. The ones I’ve worked with primarily, and the foci of Part 1, were table from the base package, xtabs from the stats package, and count from Hadley Wickham’s plyr package. Tests were conducted on a data set […]
The Science of Big Data: The Art of Interpretation
Click here to learn more about Jeff Hirsch. Still think marketing research is more science than art? Allow me to introduce exhibit one, the 2016 presidential election. Lamenting this epic fail in research in The Hollywood Reporter, Michael Wolff went so far to say it was the “day the data died.” That’s not quite right. Big […]
Challenges in Data Science: How to Better Organize Enterprise Components
How do Data Scientists fit into an organization? How is the role of a Data Scientist different from the role of a Data Engineer? How should the Data Science team be organized to create the most value for the business? Those are questions companies are struggling with as they begin to incorporate Big Data, Analytics, […]
Six Reasons Data Analytics Will Make a Splash in 2017
Click here to learn more about author Jon Pilkington. Looking back over the past year, it is clear that self-service solutions have become widely adopted by organizations across industries, as users want to access and analyze information immediately without having to wait for IT to run a report or provide a database. This trend will continue […]
2016 DATAVERSITY Top 20
It’s that time of year again to announce the Top 20 publications by DATAVERSITY in 2016. We are excited to wrap up another great year of education. We published over 100 articles, over 150 blogs, 89 webinars, two online conferences, and five face-to-face conferences. We also launched our new DATAVERSITY Training Center this year where […]
Bottlenose Takes on the Data Scientist Shortage
Like many of their peers, as business leaders look to the future, they may well be concerned most about getting value out of all the data they possess. They look around at a world of unstructured data, rich in insights, but not suited to traditional legacy databases. They perceive that technologies such as Machine Learning […]
How We Will Harvest Cognition in 2017
Click here to learn more about author James Kobielus. As we bid farewell to 2016, the entire data industry is focused on cognitive computing as the path forward. We’re all making predictions for how Cognitive Computing’s footprint in our lives will deepen in coming years. One key assumption in everybody’s predictions is that somehow this […]
Press Release: DATAVERSITY Announces New Monthly Data Insights & Analytics Webinar Series
Los Angeles, Calif. – DATAVERSITY Education, LLC announces the launch of a new webinar series, Data Insights & Analytics hosted by recognized industry leaders Kelle O’Neal and John Ladley. The series is to be a monthly program with free live webinar events the first Thursday of every month at 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM […]
Social Media Analytics Outperformed the Pollsters
Click here to learn more about author Mark Green. Social Media Analytics Outperformed the Pollsters in the Presidential Election By Mark Green, COO of 4C (www.4Cinsights.com) The polls have been proven wrong twice in 2016 – first in the Brexit vote, and more recently in the U.S. Presidential Election, the two most closely watched and […]