In the 2016 Democratic primary in Michigan, Hillary Clinton surprised many by losing to Bernie Sanders. Jody Heck Wortman, a data scientist for the Democratic National Committee, brought a new perspective to […]

Initially developed at U.C. Berkeley’s AMPLab in 2009, Apache Spark is a “lightning-fast unified analytics engine” for large-scale data processing. It can be used with cluster computing platforms such as Hadoop, Mesos, […]

“Business analytics is still in its infancy with most of it being descriptive, and few models are prescriptive,” says Michael Wu, who just joined PROS as their chief artificial intelligence strategist (how’s […]

Private-equity firms have long relied on human connections to find deals, sending partners to meet thousands of executives every year and turning to their professional networks for investment ideas. But they’re increasingly […]

No matter what type of analytics you’re talking about, there’s no reason it can’t be explained in plain English. Predictive analytics is a major hype zone. That hot, new development you’re hearing […]

It’s often been said that big data holds the keys to the transformation of healthcare delivery and disease management. And, it’s no surprise that healthcare systems across the world are looking closely […]

Harvard Business Review recently published an article on what leading Data Scientists actually do. Surprisingly enough, the key skill is communication, rather than experience with statistical models. Aristotle argued that to persuade […]

Want to catch tax cheats? The government of Rwanda does — and it’s finding them by studying anomalies in revenue-collection data. Want to understand how American culture is changing? So does a […]