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Here is a fantastic book review by Ian White .  Ian is an entrepreneurial product leader with 20 years experience spanning product management and business… Read More »Government Stats Are Ready for Change

Summary:  The argument in the popular press about robots taking our jobs fails in the most fundamental way to differentiate between robots and AI.  Here… Read More »A Robot Took My Job – Was It a Robot or AI?

Depending on the business objectives, social media analytics can take four different forms, namely, descriptive analytics, diagnostic analytics, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics. Social media… Read More »4 types of social media analytics explained

This article was written by Tristan Handy. Tristan is the founder and president of Fishtown Analytics: helping startups implement advanced analytics. I’m very confident of… Read More »The Startup Founder’s Guide to Analytics

Apache Spark is generally known as a fast, general and open-source engine for big data processing, with built-in modules for streaming, SQL, machine learning and graph… Read More »PySpark Cheat Sheet: Spark in Python

In this blog post, I will discuss feature engineering using the Tidyverse collection of libraries. Feature engineering is crucial for a variety of reasons, and it requires… Read More »Feature Engineering with Tidyverse

Genevera I. Allen (left) is professor in the Departments of Statistics, and the Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Rice University. Corinne Cath (right) is a doctoral student… Read More »Interview with Two Women Data Scientists

In this article, I present a few modern techniques that have been used in various business contexts, comparing performance with traditional methods. The advanced techniques… Read More »Advanced Machine Learning with Basic Excel