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
Self-service platform vendor Alteryx is pushing the envelope to offer customers more kinds of advanced analytics. Here is Upside's first impression of Alteryx 10.6.
- By Fern Halper
- July 20, 2016
Have analytics tools made it too easy for business users to think they can perform the role of a data scientist without the rigorous training needed to do the job right?
- By Fern Halper
- June 13, 2016
Decision management provides a way for organizations to clarify how their decisions are made and structured. We offer Upside's first impression of FICO's decision management tools.
- By Fern Halper
- May 31, 2016
Dell recently released Statistica 13.1. We offer Upside's first impressions from a business briefing and a look at the idea of a citizen data scientist.
- By Fern Halper
- May 16, 2016
IBM believes that analytics can be everywhere. We offer Upside's first impressions from a business briefing.
- By Fern Halper
- April 20, 2016
Rulex provides a new generation of advanced analytics tools. We offer Upside's first impressions from a business briefing.
- By Fern Halper
- April 18, 2016
Collaboration, validation, education, and organization can help your organization democratize advanced analytics.
- By Fern Halper
- March 22, 2016
Our interviews with a dozen vendors that have a strategic focus on the Internet of Things and the analytics products to support it reveal that IoT analytics is more than a passing fad or the latest buzzword
- By Fern Halper
- February 26, 2016