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:

We Have The…

Introduction

Part I - Data Science Recipes

1. New random number generator: simple, strong and…

Extreme data science is a way of doing data science to deliver high value very fast. It can best be compared to extreme  rock climbing, where individuals managed to climb challenging peaks in uncharted territory, in minimum amount of time with a small team and small budget, sometimes successfully using controversial climbing routes or techniques. For instance, Reinhold Messner climbing the Everest in winter, alone in…

The business computing always occurs in enterprises, which plays an important role in enterprises operations, and mainly handled by the business users. The key business computing is usually characterized with timeliness and weak predication. There is no ready answer in the ERP, CRM, and other business systems. For example, find out the materials whose inventory level is below the warning limit for 3 consecutive days in the recent 2 weeks. Among those materials, which are used to produce the…

I am working for a clothing retailing company,we are launching a BI system.Could you give some advices about that,thanks!

We invite you to contribute blog postings, comments, discussions forum questions or answers, list your…

Monthly selection of 50 big data, analytics, data science, visualization, data integration articles from various respected news outlets. Covering education, training, salaries, business applications, major press releases, success stories etc.

At the bottom of this article, you will find links to our previous news selections,…

Selected articles and announcements from DSC, BigDataNews and AnalyticBridge:

• Map of Data Science University Programs…

Interview with Justin Langseth, CEO and co-founder of data visualization startup, Zoomdata.…

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." - Albert Einstein

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Data Science is in…

BI (Business Intelligence) refers to the intelligence and ability to enhance the enterprises competitiveness, involving report presentation, reporting result calculation, OLAP analysis, business data calculation, data mining and predication. Among these, there are both the technician-oriented high-level systems, and the business user-oriented agile desktop BI tools. In this post, we only talk about agile desktop BI…

It's not that I am necessarily trying to coin a new "V" for big data, but rather highlight the importance of the scientific method and ultimate goal of big data, to bring real value.

Wired Magazine was kind enough to pick up my article and you can read it here:  The Missing Vs in Big Data - Viability and Value

Full Tilt Poker is the second largest online poker room; it belongs to Rational FT which is a computer services company that develops software, business computer maintenance and performs operations based digital marketing. http://www.rfts.com/  

Two fundamental points of running a poker room online are the integrity of the site and the trust of customers. Players must be completely sure that they are protected against fraud. Negative publicity…

Interesting question posted on Quora (a network for geeks) a while back. Here's a summary of the very long and detailed top answer:

1. Learn about matrix factorizations…

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Here are some highlights from a few thought leaders and practitioners in the big data space that I found valuable enough to share – to me, they're hitting on similar themes so worth summarizing.

How can one differentiate the First Order and Second order effects during Data Analysis?

A major concern for organizations building big data analytical ecosystems is data security. One flaw of Hadoop/MapReduce and many NoSQL databases is weak security.

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Recent posts by Larry Wasserman and Vincent Granville are fantastic additions to the data science conversation.

In a recent post of mine I had mentioned about the partnership between MapR and Canonical towards an initiative to make Hadoop available with Ubuntu natively through Ubuntu Partner Archive. Since, the package has been released now, I thought of showing how to get it done. Trust me it's really cool to install Hadoop…