Vision: Empowering clients to make scientific, data driven decisions. Mission: To create decision enabling tools, which combine the power of predictive analytics and the latest technology, and enable the user to make the right decision at the right time with …
Read More
Analytic Edge is a provider of high impact business solutions leveraging advanced analytics and technology. Headquartered in Bangalore, India, it is the brainchild of Santosh Nair. With over 12 years of experience in statistical modeling and advanced analytics consulting, Santosh and …
Read More
As big data explodes across all sectors of the business world, it has seen greater relevance and popularity in the retail sector. Whether it’s strategy and planning, merchandising, supply chain, marketing or store operations, Data Analytics can be used to …
Read More
Companies across the business world have realized that the answer to staying one step ahead of their competition lies within data analytics and the ability to effectively manage their data. The quintessential factor in successfully using their data to positively …
Read More
For those companies that consider their workforce to be their most valuable and expensive asset, HR analytics is the need of the hour. Studies like the Aberdeen Group survey have shown that organizations that use HR or workforce analytics to …
Read More
In February this year, Kate Crawford, principal researcher at Microsoft Research New England, delivered a talk at the Strata Conference, entitled Algorithmic Illusions: Hidden Biases of Big Data. Her talk focused on the subjectivity of data and data sets. She cautioned …
Read More
Originally published in JobBuzz Business analytics has been historically viewed as a specialized field, with a strong emphasis on knowledge of statistical algorithms and tools. Typical analytics teams at most companies used to be staffed with people with Masters Degrees …
Read More
This has been an exciting week at Jigsaw Academy. As we began to wind up another successful analytics training course, our 42nd so far and began gearing up for the 43rd, beginning later this month, we also launched a new …
Read More
Analytics is a relatively ‘young’ area of work. It has evolved and expanded 100 fold in the last 10 years as more and more companies and their top managements have become convinced about the immense value it adds to decision …
Read More
We have discussed in an earlier post how the explosion of data (especially in terms of new variables) is leading to a huge requirement of Analytics professionals who can work on data mining and Visualisation / dash boarding. They say …
Read More
This is a question I get a lot from students. Most people do a SAS course / Analytics course with the objective of a role or job change. And often the road ahead looks confusing. With a few years of …
Read More
Attrition modelling is a buzz word in the credit cards portfolio management teams. As penetration levels are so high, it is becoming increasingly difficult to get a ‘my card only’ customer. And when your card is one of the many …
Read More
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 …
Read More
“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 …
Read More
Here is a list of new and upcoming analytical tools to watch out for in the coming year. It is based on actual corporate announcements as well as a forecast based on version upgrades by existing products in analytics. New …
Read More
Analytics is a high growth field and salaries in analytics have been sky rocketing in the last few years. There is a strong demand for “data-savvy” professionals in the industry today. As per a recent McKinsey research report, the US …
Read More
Have you ever shopped on the website www.amazon.com, one of the largest online retailers in the world? When you search Amazon for a particular book, the site also displays other books that are frequently bought together with the original book. …
Read More
Analytics is becoming more and more important to businesses. According to Gartner, advanced analytics will be one of the top 10 strategic technologies in 2011. A recent study by Accenture states that companies are increasingly turning to analytics to gain …
Read More
What kind of questions can analytics help answer? Analytics can be applied to any business decision that involves using large amounts of data that can’t be understood and analyzed by the human eye. Examples of questions analytics can help answer …
Read More
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 …
Read More
