How to Present Data to People Who Are Scared of Numbers
Do you suffer from arithmophobia? As you might be able to guess, it’s an irrational fear of numbers. I often get the feeling that some people at work love numbers: They love spreadsheets, metrics, and...
View ArticleUnobserved Component Models in R
Introduction In my last Time Series article, “Components of Time Series Data,” I discussed the trend, seasonal and cyclical components of time series data. Here I will discuss an effective method for...
View ArticleInformation Management vs. Enterprise Reporting vs. Analytics
What is Business Intelligence? While there is no universally accepted definition, Business Intelligence is often defined as the people, process and technology used to turn data into information so...
View ArticleINFOGRAPHIC: Spark in a Hadoop-based Big Data Architecture
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View ArticleBig Data University Series – Part I: Big Data
In Part I of this series, bicorner.com highlights three “Big Data” courses that may be of interest to BI, Analytics & Data Science Professionals. What is Big Data University? As stated on the Big...
View ArticleBig Data University Series – Part II: Data Science
In Part II of this series, bicorner.com highlights three “Data Science” courses that may be of interest to BI, Analytics & Data Science Professionals. What is Big Data University? As stated on the...
View ArticleBig Data University Series – Part III: More Data Science
In Part III of this series, bicorner.com highlights three more “Data Science” courses that may be of interest to BI, Analytics & Data Science Professionals. What is Big Data University? As stated...
View ArticleRankings: The Best Business Analytics Masters Programs Of 2016
Specialist degrees in big data have exploded For business schools, big data is big business. Specialist masters degrees in business analytics have exploded since first bursting onto the scene a few...
View ArticleBig Data University Series – Part IV: Free courses for BI, Analytics & Data...
In Part IV of this series, bicorner.com highlights three more “BI, Analytics & Data Science” courses that may be of interest. What is Big Data University? As stated on the Big Data University...
View ArticleComponents of Time Series Data
In “What is Time Series Analysis?” I presented some basic concepts and uses for time series models, but I did not write much about time series data. Here we will explore characteristics or components...
View ArticleA Guide to Career Success for Aspiring Big Data Analysts
Due to the big data industry’s widening skills gap, the demand for stronger analytical talent is increasing substantially every year. The influx of big data, thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT) and...
View ArticleExponential Smoothing of Time Series Data in R
This article is not about smoothing ore into gems though your may find a few gems herein. Systematic Pattern and Random Noise In “Components of Time Series Data”, I discussed the components of time...
View ArticleMoving averages
In a recent post “Components of Time Series Data“, I talked about decomposing a time series into its component parts and in “Exponential Smoothing of Times Series Data in R“, I talked about simple...
View Article12 Ways To Connect Data Analytics To Business Outcomes
Even though more organizations are attempting to become data-driven, many of them still aren’t able to link data analytics to business outcomes. Some of the challenges are obvious. Others aren’t. Here...
View ArticleThe 18 Best Analytics Tools Every Business Manager Should Know
The goal of any business analytic tool is to analyze data and extract actionable and commercially relevant information that you can use to increase results or performance. But with so many tools...
View ArticleBig Data: 33 Brilliant And Free Data Sources For 2016
Data is ubiquitous — but sometimes it can be hard to see the forest for the trees, as it were. Many companies of various sizes believe they have to collect their own data to see benefits from big data...
View ArticleThe 10 Commandments of Business Intelligence in Big Data
Organizations today don’t use previous generation architectures to store their big data. Why would they use previous-generation BI tools for big data analysis? When looking at BI tools for your...
View ArticleThe 20 best schools to study big data analytics
Big data analytics is one of the fastest growing fields in enterprise technology. Here are the best places to study in the field. Big data, data analytics, data science—whichever direction you want to...
View ArticleWhat’s up with Gold?
A colleague recently asked me perform a time series analysis of gold prices and forecast future prices with the assumption that they would continue to decline. In this analysis with will not only...
View ArticleText Summarization using Single Value Decomposition
In today’s world with such a tremendous amount of data available on the internet and with same amount of time to actually read everything, it has necessitated the need to explore techniques which can...
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