Selecting a Trade Area
In the last article, we looked at how retailers estimate their trade area. In this article, we look at how retailers choose their trade areas.The bottom line of any trade-area that a retailer looks at is the profits he is going to make…
SAS Institute and the Products from SAS
Do you wonder which direction the Analytics Industry is moving? What skill swill prove important in the future (software)? What can be possible competitors to the skills that you currently possess? A Question I often get is - Will SAS…
SAS Programming Training: Log and List files
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc4qxNzU0N0&feature=plcpHere is another snippet from our training course on the SAS language.This video talks about the log files and the list files that are generated when SAS programs are run.…
Why India desperately needs Business Analytics!
The world over, Analytics is shifting to “Big” while in India we haven’t even started thinking “Small”. Every day, one hears about progress being made in the world of “Big Data Analytics” and how it is going to change the way businesses are…
GM Yanks Facebook Ad Spend: Cluelessness, Bad Analytics or Strategic Statement?
While growth in the United States has slowed tremendously for Facebook (flat to slightly down in the last quarter through end of March 2012), a three-year trend is instructive. During the time from April 1st 2009 to April 1st 2012, Facebook…
Big Data Management – the new buzz word in Analytics
In information technology, big data consists of data sets that grow so large that they become awkward to work with using on-hand database management tools. Difficulties include capture, storage, search, sharing, analytics, and…