The Analytics Compass

2016-04-15

There is a clear sense in the marketplace today that for the internet of things (IoT) to realize its true potential as the next-big-thing, analytics is...

2016-04-13

We frequently get questions about whether we have chosen all the right parameters to build a machine learning model. There are two scenarios: either we...

2016-03-11

As data science extends its domain over more and more types of businesses, it is inevitable that we will need to work with unstructured text data. This...

2016-02-24

2016-02-16

We recently completed the development of a smart text mining engine for a prominent survey aggregator. What was interesting about this project was the...

2016-01-27

2016-01-19

Far too often, even experienced data scientists get confused about what feature engineering really means. They may mistake it for feature selection or...

2016-01-14

All of these are issues that all small companies, especially in manufacturing face. 

2016-01-12

In today's data overloaded world, there are 5 types of data which require the use of big data tools such as Hadoop:

2016-01-07

Analytics is very much on the minds of most businesses - large, medium and small. Bigger businesses are obviously more mature when it comes to knowing...