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Predictive Analytics Has a Future in Education

Originally published in analyticsindiamag.com In our world of rising costs and shrinking funds, a rising number of colleges are in real financial trouble. Institutes are deep in debt as they’ve borrowed heavily to fix aging infrastructure, keep up with competitors …

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

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

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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Jigsaw Review in The Smart CEO Magazine

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Interview with SIBIA Founder

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 …

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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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I did it! Jigsaw Academy student Rajesh Ramamurthy tells us how he made a career shift into analytics.

Many of Jigsaw’s students join our various courses because they can hear the rising crescendo within the analytics industry. They yearn to be a part of this challenging and exciting career, one that is fast paced, has rich monetary returns …

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Application of Decision Sciences to Solve Business Problems- Retail Industry

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 …

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Prestigious Brands Academy Award for Jigsaw Academy

Jigsaw Academy, won the prestigious Brands Academy Award for ‘Best Upcoming Academy for Analytics Courses in Bangalore’, on April 13th, 2013 at an exclusive gala event held at the ITC Maurya, New Delhi. The award was presented to the founders  …

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Business World Learns: Jigsaw trains much needed Data Scientists

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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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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What makes a good SAS course?

Why would you do a SAS course? A majority of us want to improve our understanding of getting things done on software used by the largest section of the analytics fraternity. Why not use the web and other free resources …

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3 Degrees that Will Prepare You for a Career in Analytics

Merriam-Webster defines analytics as “the method of logical analysis.” In business, analytics is the process of analyzing quantitative data to glean information about performance. This process is often used in marketing departments and in risk management. Analytics is also a …

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Excel 2010 – and the World of Analytics

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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Analytics Training – Courses in India and abroad

Analytics training has gained popularity in recent times. The explosive growth in business analytics has led to a huge shortfall of resources. Consequently many academic and professional institutes have come out with courses in analytics.

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

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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Why is business analytics a great career choice ?

‘Analytics’ is the new buzzword in business. The world is overflowing with data and anyone who can harness this data to benefit enterprises is highly sought after. In a recent report, McKinsey predicted a shortfall of 150000 trained analytics professionals …

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Planning to build a career in analytics – SAS learning is important

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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Women in Analytics

How is Analytics as a career choice for women?  As we aspire for a gender equal world, we do realise that the social responsibilities of women and men are traditionally different.  To honour the other roles and responsibilities that people …

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Analytics with R

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