Contributor: Fern Halper
Fern Halper, Ph.D., is vice president and senior director of TDWI Research for advanced analytics. She is well known in the analytics community, having been published hundreds of times on data mining and information technology over the past 20 years. Halper is also co-author of several Dummies books on cloud computing and big data. She focuses on advanced analytics, including predictive analytics, text and social media analysis, machine-learning, AI, cognitive computing and big data analytics approaches. She has been a partner at industry analyst firm Hurwitz & Associates and a lead data analyst for Bell Labs. Her Ph.D. is from Texas A&M University. You can reach her by email (fhalper@tdwi.org), on Twitter (twitter.com/fhalper), and on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/fbhalper).

All articles by Fern Halper
Reflections on the recent SAS analyst meeting and two-day overview of where SAS is headed by TDWI's VP and senior research director for advanced analytics.
- By Fern Halper
- March 27, 2017
According to TDWI research, the gender gap in BI-related fields widened in 2016. There are many reasons why women are earning less than men in these jobs.
- By Fern Halper
- February 21, 2017
Organizations are using many strategies to gain bottom-line value from big data and data science. Three major trends stood out in TDWI's recent research.
- By Fern Halper
- February 2, 2017
Greater interest (and deployment of) AI, advanced analytics, and open source are among the trends you'll be seeing in 2017.
- By Fern Halper
- December 16, 2016
Fern Halper, vice president and senior director of TDWI research for advanced analytics, offers her perspective on announcements from seven vendors.
- By Fern Halper
- December 5, 2016
Details of six popular analytics trends discussed at Strata Hadoop World that employ advanced analytics and/or make data consumable.
- By Fern Halper
- October 3, 2016
As the U.S. Presidential campaign heats up, examining Twitter posts shows the limitations of sentiment analysis.
- By Fern Halper
- September 7, 2016
Do you think of IoT as mostly collecting consumer data? This case study is a great example of IoT technology being used to gain a literal competitive advantage.
- By Fern Halper
- July 22, 2016