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Interview with SIBA Founder

Vision: Empowering clients to make scientific, data driven decisions.Mission: To create decision enabling tools, which combine the power of predictive analytics and the latest technology, and enable the user to make the right decision at the right time with the right data. Headquartered in Kolkata, SIBIA founded by Angshuman Bhattacharya is an up and coming marketing and consumer analytics venture that Jigsaw Academy is proud to feature…See More
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Using Big Data to Improve Customer Experience

This week we are happy to introduce and welcome our guest blogger Alastair Kane. Alastair is a freelance writer and has provided this article on behalf of Acxiom a company providing big data analytics services.In this post he talks about how Big Data can enhance Customer Experience.  What is Big Data, and why is it different from other dataAs the world becomes increasingly digitised, access to reams of information about customers, including data…See More
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Jigsaw to Collaborate with Business Schools in Delivering a One Credit Analytics Course as Part of Their Regular Curriculum.

Jigsaw Academy, a premier online analytics training academy has spent the last six months, visiting business schools across India, spreading awareness about analytics and the exciting and rewarding career options it opens up. They found that Business schools are only just waking up to the realization that data science and SAS skills are imperative for business graduates today.The recent Graduate Management Admission Council® (GMAC®) Corporate Recruiters Survey, revealed that top recruiters want…See More
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Choose the right analytics tool for your company

There are hundreds of analytics tools available in the market. These tools have varied capabilities and they range from free tools to very, very expensive ones. If you are looking to drive analytics within your organization, you will face this question – which tool should I choose for my company?Should you go for the free and powerful R tool or should you go for the tried and tested SAS tool? When do you need to move beyond Excel?Read more at …See More
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How store-based retailers are moving from general propositions to applying rules to individual customers

Business Analytics is a science so hidden that it is rarely that one finds it splashed in a full-featured article in a widely-published newspapers. In this article, New York Times staff writer, Charles Duhigg, details how Tesco uses high-end data analytics to successfully, in its words, learn their shoppers’ secrets and hence successfully predict their shopping behavior.…See More
Feb 25
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Introduction to Analytics - Continued

The first session of our introductory course consists of an Overview of Analytics.As part of our 6 video lecture series on Overview of Analytics, we recently shared the first 3 videos in a previous article. In the following videos, we have covered the Analytics Tools topics.Read moreSee More
Feb 18
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Introduction to Analytics

The first session of our introductory course consists of an Overview of Analytics. We recently created a 6 video lecture series on Overview of Analytics. Here are the first 3 videos from this series.View hereSee More
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Applying Analytics in restaurant chains

Ideal time for applying Analytics to Restaurant Businesses: The restaurant business in India has been a happy hunting ground for many entrepreneurs, big or small. The sector is still seeing high growth and a huge amount of investments, with new chains opening at a rapid pace. For some of the older players though, the time has come to consolidate their businesses and/or expand. This requires systematic management and oversight to ensure a smooth transition so that the basic fundamentals on which…See More
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Using Vectorization in SAS IML to improve code performance

Vectorization is basically a way in which the software program is made to perform on multiple threads simultaneously. In general if a program is not vectorized (scalar implementation), it operates on each thread one by one till it completes the operation on all the threads available. Whereas Vectorizationallows the code to complete the operation on the entire set of threads in one go.Read more at …See More
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The Curse of the Bell Curve – Part 2

This article was originally published in Data Science Central.The ‘Bell curve’ or the ‘Gaussian bell curve’ is one of the fundamental concepts on which most of the statistical analysis is based. From social sciences to astronomy to financial services- most of the application of statistics in the real world relies on the assumption that the data being analysed is distributed in the…See More
Jan 16
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Becoming a Data Scientist just got easier: Jigsaw Academy revamps its analytics courses for 2013

Jigsaw Academy, the best place on the web to learn data science and analytics, kick starts the new year with an improved course curriculum for its most popular analytics course.Jigsaw Academy announced the launch of a new and improved curriculum for its flagship course: The Foundation course in Analytics Jigsaw Academy has seen a sharp increase in student enrolments from countries such as the US, UK and Australia in…See More
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Software in Analytics – the Changing Game

We know that there are a large number of SaaS (software as a service) today which make all aspects of analytics much easier to execute than ever before. As the plethora of giants in this sphere increase in size ( SAS, SPSSS etc.) by acquiring smaller firms which compete in the BI space, so do the number of smaller players.Two relatively smaller players that seem to be making an impact in the Indian Analytics space are Omniscope and Tabuleau.  Tableau works on the tag – ‘Data in. Brilliance out’…See More
Dec 23, 2012
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What makes a good SAS course?

Why would you do a SAS course? A majority of us want to improve our understanding of getting things done on software used by the largest section of the analytics fraternity.  Why not use the web and other free resources to do this? The biggest advantage of self – study through online and offline resources – is that it is FREE. No monetary outflow. And you decide the pace and quantum of learning. The disadvantage is that you need to know what is important for effective functioning in the work…See More
Nov 14, 2012
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Interview with SIBA Founder

Vision: Empowering clients to make scientific, data driven decisions.

Mission: To create decision enabling tools, which combine the power of predictive analytics and the latest technology, and enable the user to make the right decision at the right time with the right data.

 

Headquartered in Kolkata, SIBIA founded by Angshuman Bhattacharya is an up and coming marketing and consumer analytics venture…

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Posted on May 23, 2013 at 5:09am

Now, choose a right career for your child with analytics

Originally published in Business Standard

Though big data and analytics is already a buzz word in business circles, it’s potential is continuously reaching out further to touch the everyday ordinary lives of the common people. Can you imagine using analytics to help your child decide their future? Well companies like IBM are…

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Posted on May 22, 2013 at 12:49am

Analytics and the Indian Market- Good things ahead

Data is being collected everywhere around us. This data is analyzed and used to impact B2C and B2B markets in traditional and nontraditional sectors in ways we never imagined. Indeed Analytics has proven itself to be an essential tool for any organization, influencing every decision and impacting every stakeholder.

But what exactly does this big Analytics boom mean for India specifically? Well the outlook is extremely bright and here is just why:…

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Posted on May 21, 2013 at 5:12am

I aspired to get into analytics…I succeeded! Jigsaw Academy student Smriti Singh tells us how she made a career shift into analytics.

This week we are proud to feature another bright student of ours who, with hard work and determination, translated her dreams of being a data analyst into reality. Fully realizing the potential of analytics in India, Smriti realized that the path to rich career growth lay in obtaining the skills that were in demand in the analytics industry.…

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Posted on May 16, 2013 at 4:22am

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