Do you wonder which direction the Analytics Industry is moving? What skill swill prove important in the future (software)? What can be possible competitors to the skills that you currently possess? A Question I often get is – Will SAS …
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Here is another snippet from our training course on the SAS language. This video talks about the log files and the list files that are generated when SAS programs are run. This is part of a 90 minute module on …
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The world over, Analytics is shifting to “Big” while in India we haven’t even started thinking “Small”. Every day, one hears about progress being made in the world of “Big Data Analytics” and how it is going to change the …
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While growth in the United States has slowed tremendously for Facebook (flat to slightly down in the last quarter through end of March 2012), a three-year trend is instructive. During the time from April 1st 2009 to April 1st 2012, …
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In information technology, big data consists of data sets that grow so large that they become awkward to work with using on-hand database management tools. Difficulties include capture, storage, search, sharing, analytics, and visualizing. This trend continues because of the …
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We’ve seen before how RFM (Recency, Frequency, Monetary) technique evolved from mail catalog retailers and its popularity because of its common-sense premise, its rather relative easy statistics associated with it, and the easy availability of the data with most mail-catalogue …
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How to build a Career in Analytics – this is a question that I have been asked umpteenth number of times by a lot of people! My answer to most of them has been that Analytics is all around you-you …
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Business Analytics is the new gold rush. Not only is IT expenditure on analytics increasing at exponential rates through the years, there is a shortage of skilled practitioners and a robust demand for professionals. The demand for business analytics is …
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So where does HR analytics start? As with all analytics, this starts from a thought when the curiosity / need to know exactly how the situation looks becomes of paramount importance. A new leader who wants to know the lay …
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RFM stands for simply for – How Recent was the last customer visit to the store? How Frequently does she visit the store? What is the total Monetary value of these engagements so far? The beginning of Mail Order During …
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One of the areas where analytics and business intelligence hold tremendous potential is health care. Unlike the financial or telecommunications sector, individual records in the healthcare sector are still in non-digital form like paper. This effectively means that the telecom …
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What type of decisions can you make with outputs of analytics? Are they only good enough to make EffectiveOperational decisions on campaigns, media choices, people likely to attrite etc.? Or can they be used to make the BIG, long term …
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