Abstract: This paper is intended for all those who recognize the benefits from metadata management including, executives, business users & practitioners. Unlike in the past, where metadata management was always in the […]
How to Be a Data Scientist
Hello, my name is Apryl and I am a data scientist. I didn’t realize that I was a data scientist until earlier this year. For my entire career I just thought that […]
Advanced Degrees for Data Science, Predictive Analytics and Big Data
Daniel D. Gutierrez, Managing Editor of insideBIGDATA discusses a question on many people’s minds these days – is an advanced degree required to become a data scientist and if so, what programs […]
Gain a Competitive Edge with Business Intelligence Software & Analytics
One of the biggest problems with large and small organizations nowadays is the fact that they are rich in data, but extremely poor on insight. Sure, they may be collecting information from […]
Why Do I Need A Data Lake?
The data lake is gaining lots of momentum across the different customers to whom I talk. Every, and I mean every organization wants to learn why and how to implement a data […]
Learn Big Data Analytics using Top YouTube Videos, TED Talks & other resources
There has been a lot of investment in Big Data by various companies in last few years. This rise in usage of big data analytics has resulted in high demand of skilled […]
Decision Trees – Gradient Boosting Models
Decision Tree models are simple and powerful analytical models used in variety of analytic solutions: segmentation, regression, and classification. In previous three posts in this series, we talked about advantages of Decision […]
Decision Trees – Tree Development and Scoring
Decision Tree models are powerful analytical models which are really easy to understand, visualize, implement, score; while at the same time requiring little data pre-processing. They are also adept at handling variable […]
Decision Trees – Why Are They Useful and How To Create Them
Decision Tree models are simple but powerful analytical models used in variety of analytic solutions: segmentation, regression, and classification. Decision trees have quite a few advantages over other modeling algorithms: Really easy […]
A Predictive Analytics Primer
No one has the ability to capture and analyze data from the future. However, there is a way to predict the future using data from the past. It’s called predictive analytics, and […]