In recent times, I have read a number of articles lamenting the frequent lack of value resulting from large-scale analytics and data science initiatives. While I have seen substantial value driven from many efforts, I have also seen examples where the results were very poor. My belief is that oftentimes the problems can be boiled down to one basic mistake. Namely, thinking that … [Read more...] about Why Predictions Are Not Enough
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3 Data Science Methods and 10 Algorithms for Big Data Experts
One of the hottest questions in Information Management now is how to deal with Big Data in all its applications: how to gather, store, secure, and possibly most importantly interpret what we collect. Organizations that are able to apply effective data analysis to massive amounts of data gain significant competitive advantages in their industries. Organizations no longer … [Read more...] about 3 Data Science Methods and 10 Algorithms for Big Data Experts
Why Python is the Right Programming Language for Data Science
Data Science as a field has gained a lot of popularity in the recent, couple of years. This field primarily deals with converting huge amounts of data into meaningful marketing strategies. The data dealt with here, refers to the scores and scores of records present online, these records could be anything from a persons shopping choices to daily notifications. This data is … [Read more...] about Why Python is the Right Programming Language for Data Science
Best Scala channels for Data Scientists on Gitter
Scala is an object-oriented functional language that has gained wide acceptance in developer and data science communities for many of its merits, including runtime performance & stability, capability of building robust systems, ease of learning, use for both static and dynamic language coders, as well as good libraries and language facilities for building concurrent and … [Read more...] about Best Scala channels for Data Scientists on Gitter
Data Science 101: The Rise and Shine of Machine Learning
We are living in a digital era where Customer is the king. Many businesses have capitulated to this new realm and have started interacting with customers dynamically. Today the customers are free to navigate a merchant (eCommerce) website any way they fancy. Also, the merchant can display content and place offers dynamically based on how a given customer interacts with his … [Read more...] about Data Science 101: The Rise and Shine of Machine Learning
