Tag Archives: analytics blogs

Getting your hands dirty with data

Posted on 18 Jun 2013 by admin

This week we are happy to introduce and welcome our guest blogger Nirav Dalal. Nirav is currently working with a large KPO and has close to 10 years of overall experience in the analytics and modeling space. In his role …

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Do You Have What It Takes To Be a Data Scientist?

Posted on 6 Jun 2013 by Sanchita Lobo

Ok, so we all know that there is this big demand for data scientists world over. Many of you are aspiring to become one, but are not quite sure if you have what it takes. As Anjul Bhambhri, vice president …

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The Next Big Thing in Big Data: People Analytics

Posted on 31 May 2013 by Sanchita Lobo

Successful companies are realizing that a strategic focus on people management is necessary to recruit and retain the brightest and smartest. An enthused and energetic workforce is directly correlated to great management and an environment that supports innovation. But just …

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Analytics and the Indian Market- Good Things Ahead

Posted on 21 May 2013 by Sanchita Lobo

Data is being collected everywhere around us. This data is analyzed and used to impact B2C and B2B markets in traditional and nontraditional sectors in ways we never imagined. Indeed Analytics has proven itself to be an essential tool for …

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Jigsaw Academy Launches Analytics Workshops for Business School Faculty

Posted on 23 Apr 2013 by Sanchita Lobo

Originally published in PRWeb. The success of Big Data initiatives in any organization is very much dependent on the analytical skills of the management. As business schools seek to have an edge in an increasingly competitive management education sector, developing …

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Business World Learns: Jigsaw trains much needed Data Scientists

Posted on 22 Mar 2013 by Rayann Bilal

Originally published in Business World McKinsey India estimates that the country needs at least 150,000 new data wizards to come to grips with Big Data. McKinsey Global estimated the US itself had a shortage of between 140,000 and 190,000 people …

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How store-based retailers are moving from general propositions to applying rules to individual customers

Posted on 25 Feb 2013 by Anshuman Acharya

Business Analytics is a science so hidden that it is rarely that one finds it splashed in a full-featured article in a widely-published newspapers. In this New York Times article, staff writer, Charles Duhigg, details how Tesco uses high-end data …

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Applying Analytics in restaurant chains

Posted on 6 Feb 2013 by Snehamoy Mukherjee

Ideal time for applying Analytics to Restaurant Businesses: The restaurant business in India has been a happy hunting ground for many entrepreneurs, big or small. The sector is still seeing high growth and a huge amount of investments, with new …

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The Curse of the Bell Curve – Part 2

Posted on 16 Jan 2013 by Gaurav Vohra

This article was originally published in Data Science Central The ‘Bell curve’ or the ‘Gaussian bell curve’ is one of the fundamental concepts on which most of the statistical analysis is based. From social sciences to astronomy to financial services- most …

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The Curse of the Bell Curve – Part 1

Posted on 9 Jan 2013 by Gaurav Vohra

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The Role of Women in Analytics

Posted on 22 Oct 2012 by admin

Analytics is the process of taking existing data from a single source or multiple sources and using it to make a particular decision. The decision made should be the best or optimal decision. It (analytics) can be defined as a …

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Analytics on Unstructured data – Twitter, Facebook and social media

Posted on 8 Oct 2012 by Subhashini Tripathi

Quoting Wikipedia: – Unstructured Data (or unstructured information) refers to information that either does not have a predefined data model and/or does not fit well into relational tables. Unstructured information is typically text-heavy, but may contain data such as dates, …

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Excel 2010 – and the World of Analytics

Posted on 20 Sep 2012 by Subhashini Tripathi

When we think of a career in analytics, we think if big data, SAS, SPSS, R etc. These are the illustrious stars in the galaxy of analytics. Does our mind consider the omnipresent excel in the same category? If you …

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Why An Analytics Education Can Extend into More Industries Than You Think

Posted on 13 Sep 2012 by admin

If you are interested in pursuing an education in analytics, you are probably prepared for a challenging road ahead. Analytics is not easy and success within the discipline requires a special kind of mind. Students have to be prepared to …

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Time to shift your career aspiration from Management Consulting to Analytics!

Posted on 23 Aug 2012 by Snehamoy Mukherjee

Every now and then, the myth of “Management Consulting” is shattered by one disclosure after the other. Now, one can add drama, a la William Shakespeare and say “I come to bury Management Consultants, not to praise them” and hide …

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Analytics India Magazine

Posted on 16 Aug 2012 by Gaurav Vohra

Analytics India Magazine is a web-magazine that provides information about the field of analytics. From companies in this space to news, articles and case studies – analytics India magazine is a collection of all things relevant to the field of …

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How fast is R growing compared to other software in analytics?

Posted on 26 Jul 2012 by Ajay Ohri

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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Why Financial Analytics expertise is going to be the next big thing!

Posted on 19 Jul 2012 by Snehamoy Mukherjee

While everyone believes that “Big Data” is the next big thing in the world of Analytics, I believe otherwise. There is a reason why every person who is in the Financial Services domain and with an interest to pursue Analytics …

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Defining Customer Loyalty: Why RFM is not the right measure to establish customer loyalty

Posted on 22 Jun 2012 by Anshuman Acharya

Customer Loyalty is one of the terms one hears most abused in the boardrooms of retailers. Marketers would tell you that this particular campaign would drive customer loyalty, store managers would tell you that such and such customer is among …

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Building an Analytical Organization

Posted on 1 Mar 2012 by Gaurav Vohra

“The world has become a smaller place. Consumers have access to more information and a much wider choice when it comes to choosing products and services as a result of increased connectivity and lower cost of communication. What this also …

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