This article has been contributed by Chris Landry . He is the Managing Director of Colourfast Big data analytics is long thought to be a game changer.… Read More »Big Data: From Buzz Word To Business Benefits
In this article, a mathematical model for the growth of a sunflower (shown below) will be described (reference: the video lectures of Prof. Jeffrey R Chesnov from… Read More »Modeling the growth of a sunflower with golden angle and Fibonacci numbers in R
Is data governance critical for you? Would you want to build a flexible data governance strategy, iteratively realizing the benefits as it evolves? Would you… Read More »Three Stages Of Effective Data Governance In Healthcare
For statistical models, selecting those predictors is what tests the steel of data scientists. It is really challenging to lay out the steps, as for… Read More »Statistical Modeling; Selecting Predictors is a Challenge for Data Scientists
Hadoop – Introduction & features Let us start with what is Hadoop and what are Hadoop features that make it so popular. Hadoop is an… Read More »Limitations of Hadoop – How to overcome Hadoop drawbacks
Many years ago when I was entering the intelligence community, I attended a class in Virginia where the instructor opened the session with a test… Read More »Introducing User Behavioral Analysis in the Risk Process
This article was written by Jacob Joseph. Unlike evaluating the accuracy of models that predict a continuous or discrete dependent variable like Linear Regression models,… Read More »The Best Metric to Measure Accuracy of Classification Models
In this assignment, some exploratory analysis is done on the criminal incident data from Seattle and San Francisco to visualize patterns and contrast and compare patterns across the two cities. Data used: The real… Read More »Crime Analytics: Visualization of Crime Incident Reports for Summar 2014 in San Francisco and Seattle
1.Introduction to Big data and Cloud Computing Cloud computing is the use of computing resources (hardware and software) that are delivered as a service over… Read More »Big Data And Cloud Computing
Let’s start with the bottom line – there is no excuse for virtually any company today, regardless of size or manpower (and within reason), not… Read More »Self-Service Data Analytics for Smaller Companies (SME’s)
