Tag Archives: Analytics Books

10 questions about career in analytics

Posted on 1 Aug 2011 by Gaurav Vohra

1. What is analytics? Analytics can simply be defined as the process of breaking a problem into simpler parts and using inferences based on data to drive decisions. Analytics is not a tool or a technology; rather it is a …

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Books on Business Analytics

Posted on 31 May 2011 by Gaurav Vohra

Here is an interesting list of books on business analytics. The list author says: “A must-read selection of books capturing the historical development, evolution and quantification of risk from its early days to today’s computationally intensive algorithms that move billions …

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The Data Flood

Posted on 5 Apr 2011 by Gaurav Vohra

The twenty first century will be known as the ‘Age of data’. Massive amounts of data is being generated, collected and analyzed all the time. Internet generates huge amounts of data every year. There are billions of pages on the …

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Data Miners Blog

Posted on 17 Mar 2011 by Gaurav Vohra

A place to read about topics of interest to data miners, ask questions of the data mining experts at Data Miners, Inc., and discuss the books of Gordon Linoff and Michael Berry. This blog (http://blog.data-miners.com/)  is written by Michael Berry …

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Blogs on analytics: dataminingblog

Posted on 17 Mar 2011 by Gaurav Vohra

This blog by Sandro Saitta, a Swiss national, covers research issues, recent applications, important events, interviews with leading actors, current trends and book reviews in the field of analytics.

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Books on Analytics

Posted on 1 Dec 2010 by Gaurav Vohra

Analytics is a vast field. At the one end, it overlaps with statistics and higher mathematics. At the other, it merges seamlessly with programming and software development. There are a lot of good books written on analytics. Not all of …

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