About Ajay Ohri
Ajay Ohri is an independent writer and blogger in the field of analytics since 2007. His Decisionstats.com website reaches more than 15,000 people on a monthly basis and has carried more than 90 interviews with noted leaders in the analytics space including authors, analysts, founders, and senior management of practically the entire analytics industry. Ajay has been a proponent of R since its early days and is currently working on a book on the same topic.
Analytics consultant and author Bob Muenchen has analyzed a multiple number of benchmarks to compare analytics languages. Bob is the author of “R for SAS and SPSS users” and “R for Stata” and has worked with all these languages for …
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It has been almost a decade since I first learnt the SAS language. I have learnt statistical programming languages before that (namely SPSS) and have been proficient in training in other languages (like R). In addition I have been exposed …
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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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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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SAP is the latest enterprise software to join R’s bandwagon SAP has joined the list of big companies embracing the R language. SAP has committed it’s latest products including the in-memory device HANA and the newly launched Business Objects Predictive …
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One of best features of the R Analytical Platform is the incredible way we can build publication ready graphs. Many other statistical platforms are good at data crunching, but their graphical abilities are so poor, a business analyst is forced …
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This is part of series of article in which I demonstrate that R is quite easy to learn as it has tips, tricks, shortcuts and graphical user interfaces that can easily cut down your time to learn it, and adding …
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“Tips for beginners in R” is the second article in the series. The first article can be read here – Why every business analyst needs to learn R? In may last article, I mentioned R is the next big thing …
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Here are some of my views on why every business analyst needs to learn R. I have worked with SAS and SPSS language products for over 10 years and R language for over 4 years now. 1) Better Job Security …
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Based on my decade long experience with business analytics software and projects, this is a small compilation of SAS Institute and its rivals. Software Vendors- 1. SAS Institute The SAS Institute has one of the strongest portfolios in business analytics …
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When I was starting my career, I thought it would just be a matter of time before I learnt some analytics software, picked up some domain expertise and mastered the way to a growing career in analytics. After ten years …
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In which Ajay talks about learning the SAS language and ensuring you have a job in a recession. The SAS language has been in existence since the last 4 decades, and it is increasingly looking like that learning the SAS …
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Business Analytic Courses are the new tulips of the statistical education industry. It has become a bit difficult for the average student to choose between the various providers of business analytics, given their differing background, platforms , and even the …
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Invariably as an experienced analyst, I come across this question by people I interact with- How do I train myself/my team in analytics? Analytical training is a fast growing need, given the tremendous need for analytics implementation in organizations and …
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Traditional direct marketing suffers from low data quality in databases that directly impacts their analytics and marketing rate of return. A classic case study for analytics is creation of unique customer identity keys, thus making the analytics of the business …
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The Master’s in Business Administration or MBA is one of the more widely sought degrees in professional life by aspiring students. One of the reasons for choosing an MBA over a Master’s in Economics or a Master’s in Science, is …
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Over my nearly decade long career in analytics , I have spent almost half of it in corporate orld ad the other half as an independent consultant. Based on these experiences , I have summarized my learnings on consulting in …
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If there is a constant complain about the SAS language , it is that it makes you think and pause before you buy software running it from the primary vendor SAS Institute. This is because the licensing is annually renewed …
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During my tenure in both Indian and American organizations as a consultant, I have observed that some very simple things hold back the implementation of analytics in organizations. This is despite the fact that the opportunity cost of not implementing …
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Here is a brief list of the methodology I have seen people do to execute various analytics projects- it includes a mix of the formal methods of KDD, SEMMA ,CRISP- DM and the intuitive and unwritten practicalities of dealing with …
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