Tag Archives: blogs on analytics

Now, choose a right career for your child with analytics

Originally published in Business Standard Though big data and analytics is already a buzz word in business circles, it’s potential is continuously reaching out further to touch the everyday ordinary lives of the common people. Can you imagine using analytics …

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“I aspired to get into analytics…I succeeded!” – Jigsaw Academy student Smriti Singh tells us how she made a career shift into Analytics.

This week we are proud to feature another bright student of ours who, with hard work and determination, translated her dreams of being a data analyst into reality. Fully realizing the potential of analytics in India, Smriti realized that the …

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Jigsaw to Collaborate with Business Schools in Delivering a One Credit Analytics Course as Part of Their Regular Curriculum

Originally Published in PRWeb Jigsaw Academy, a premier online analytics training academy has spent the last six months, visiting business schools across India, spreading awareness about analytics and the exciting and rewarding career options it opens up. They found that …

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Using Vectorization in SAS IML to improve code performance

For an analyst, writing computationally efficient codes is extremely important. A computationally efficient code takes less time to compile and execute, as a result it reduces the running time of statistical models and reports. Hence it is essential that we …

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The Curse of the Bell Curve – Part 2

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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New addition into Analytics DBMS – Hadoop as the ERP of web data and its Integration with SAS

Big data and Apache Hadoop are mentioned in the same breath in conversations and industry practices. We have been talking about big data and unstructured data quite a lot recently. And then when the SAS blog reads in a March …

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Interview with Ajay Ohri

I was pleasantly surprised when Ajay Ohri, the renowned analytics blogger, told me he wanted to interview me. Ajay has one of the most popular blogs in the field of analytics drawing over 120000 viewers a year. We spoke about …

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Kurt Thearling’s Site on Analytics

Kurt Thearling’s website is an excellent place to start off if you want to learn about data mining.Kurt is a veteran in the analytics space with extensive experience in some of the leading analytic companies in the world like Capital …

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Flowing Data: A blog on Data

FlowingData is the visualization and statistics site that shows different applications of data analysis. The blog is written by Nathan Yau, a PhD candidate in UCLA. Nathan wants to make data useful for even those who are not very data …

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Data Miners Blog

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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Marketelligent: Analytics with business sense

This is the first in a series of articles that will feature small and mid-size analytics companies doing innovative analytics work, based out of India. Marketelligent is a Bangalore based analytics consulting company focusing on consumer oriented industries namely, Retail …

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An interesting blog on analytics

Ajay Ohri, an alumnus of IIM Lucknow, has one of the most popular blogs in the field of analytics, www.decisionstats.com. One of the salient features of his blog is an Interviews section where Ajay has done interviews with some of …

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