Modern businesses all need learn how to swim at the sea of big data, to ride the wave, or avoid obstacles, after being through 5 Ws + 1H Big Data Navigation, some Olympic level data champions may gain the insights others can not perceive: 

1. Customer Insight

• Know What Customers Need Before They know…

Tablet marketing research and web analytics have consumed much of my time recently, and I wanted to take a moment to share this with AnalyticBridge members.

Tablet PC Industry Market Research

The Tablet PC Industry Market Share and Market Size section contains market share research about Tablet PC ownership and usage for several…

Many BI practitioners have heard about OLAP which is an important constituent part of business intelligence. And today we will talk about what OLAP is indeed for actual need? What is real OLAP? What is instant OLAP for instant data analytics?

Understood literally, OLAP is online analytical processing, that is, users conduct analytical operation on real-time business data.…

Big Data Vendor Landscape…

I recently attended a Light Reading Marketing Roundtable event where Phil Harvey, Light Reading's Editor-in-Chief, discussed the top trends he's seeing in the Communications industry.



I was expecting him to go into traditional, hardware-based trends such as the emergence of 4G/LTE equipment, packet optical networking, and 100 Gbps fiber-optic transmission. These technologies were mentioned, but…

Signup at http://www.crowdanalytix.com/contests/ideation-contest-warranty-pricing-fraud-detection-1200108398/

In this contest, you are expected to build an approach/framework to maximize profits for Original Equiment Manufacturer’s (OEMs) through: 1) Optimizing Warranty pricing (for warranties, extended warranties and service contracts; 2) Minimizing Warranty…

Search Engine Optimization, abbreviated as SEO. Today’s Time is very important that you hire competitive professional SEO services. Online business can improve their organic ranks and attract more web traffic. SEO companies now implement special techniques that would help a website achieve better rank against local search. This is known as local SEO services.



SEO is the process of improving the visibility of a website and more…

 Following my last two articles, today i will go on with the interactive analysis and related tools. And what about the data analytics tools? Most business intelligence tools manufacturer are engaging in developing the most efficient analytics tools, and there are various data analytics tools targeting at different purposes.

      What's the Requirements on analysis tools?…

Weekly digest from Data Science Central, Analytic Talent and Analytic Bridge:

1. Time to shift your career aspiration from Management Consulting to Analytics!…

Medicaid is a USA government run healthcare program for the poor, elderly and disabled, which is jointly funded by the states and the federal government

Predictive Analytics at NU

Last March I started taking classes at Northwestern University with the goal of obtaining a Master's in Predictive Analytics.  I've almost completed my third course.  This newsletter summarizes why I chose the program and a few of the topics I've explored to date.

My opinion: this big data / data science technology - to track your vehicle movements to alert you of an imminent crash or to tell you that you drive too fast -  will create many false positives resulting in more collisions for a number of drivers (maybe for 10% of all drivers who outperform automated driving). But it can really help dumb drivers. So,…

Interesting article published in the NewYorkTimes, discussing how statistical scores are regulated by the government and how they could be used in different contexts. They discuss a company, eBureau, who (they claim) created new types of scores.

A few highlights:…

Every now and then, the myth of “Management Consulting” is shattered by one disclosure after the other. Now, one can add drama, a la William Shakespeare and say “I come to bury Management Consultants, not to praise them” and hide an ulterior motive: “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones”. But, I am no Mark Antony and I have no hidden motives. So, I will simply say, that if…

In my last article, I have talk about interactive analysis from the definition and explains with an example, and today we will discuss the characteristics of interactive analytics.

As we can see from the above examples, the real world business data analysis is far more complex than the theory. The commercial opportunity changes unpredictably and comes and goes in a moment of doze. In…

The Hadoop stack includes more than a dozen components, or subprojects, that are complex to deploy and manage.…

According to a recent HBR article, an astounding 89% of marketers rely on their gut-feel when making decisions. As a marketer who relies on data to inform decisions every day, this fact amazes me.

Yet, I’ve read blogs recently advocating for an increased reliance on using gut-feel in decision making. This argument in effect, wants to keep…

Author: Rahul Nawab, Co- founder, IQR Analytics and Promoter, ADSA (Academy for Decision Science and Analytics).

Educating savvy and business-minded Amdavadis on the importance of numbers and analytics in your business is like teaching the properties of sand to someone in the desert, but here is my effort anyway.

The simplest definition of analytics is "the science of analysis." However, a practical definition would be how an entity, e.g., a business, arrives…

Weekly digest from Data Science Central, Analytic Talent and Analytic Bridge:

1. Why are clinical trials failing?…