Fund Portfolios, Not Projects, to Enable Innovative Analytics
Large companies tend to play it safe, and that’s often an understatement. When it comes to getting funds approved for…
Big Data Analytics Require Best Practices in Using Technology
Organizations should consider multiple aspects of deploying big data analytics. These include the type of analytics to be deployed, how…
Tell Your Kids to be Data Scientists, Not Doctors
Recently I had the pleasure of being interviewed by John Phillips at CNBC about our data scientist salary study. Recently…
How Amazon Uses Big Data to Boost Its Performance
Amazon is a big data giant, which is why I want to look at the company in my second post…
Finance Analytics Require Training to Improve
Analytics has long been a core discipline of Finance, applied to analysis of balance sheets, income statements and cash-flow statements.…
Today’s Don Draper: Relying on Data Not Scotch for Inspiration
I don't need a glass of single-malt for my creative juices to flow. No, I don't rely on inspiration via…
Exploring Big Data Analytics on Microsoft SharePoint
Business intelligence is a critical part of the modern day decision making process. But with thousands of data points to…
Why Overfitting is More Dangerous than Just Poor Accuracy [PART 1]
Arguably, the most important safeguard in building predictive models is complexity regularization to avoid overfitting the data. Arguably, the most…
How Big Data Can Impact the Mining Industry
It’s no secret that big data has led to major changes within the business world. Companies are utilizing the benefits…
What does Whale Vomit have in Common with Big Data and Analytics?
You didn’t think it was possible, did you. Neither did I. Apparently inspiration comes from wherever it wants to…Recently I…
