Now that Christmas and the New Year are behind us the nights are becoming a little longer with each passing day. Nevertheless, there's still loads of cold winter nights left to endure (unless you're in the Southern Hemisphere, in which case – throw me a shrimp on the barbie!).

It's time to dust off your New Year resolutions from last year (remember those?) and get ready for a new start, a new you and learn some new data skills.

I’ve thrown together a collection of five…

As a follow-up to my previous post "Using Machine Learning to predict Customer Behaviour", I wanted to address a similar topic but from an e-commerce perspective. How to you predict the behaviour of your visitors in your online store? and more importantly, how do you leverage this knowledge in order to optimize your traffic, conversion, profit, or whatever KPI…

Thousands of companies today declare they plan to invest in big data, sometimes with legitimate reasons. They want to hire scientists,…

There is an updated version (as of  September 28, 2015) of my presentation

‘A Statistician’s 'Big Tent' View on Big Data and Data Science’

at http://goo.gl/tiqLQs …