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TDWI Upside - Where Data Means Business

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 ([email protected]), on Twitter (twitter.com/fhalper), and on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/fbhalper).

  


All articles by Fern Halper


Upside Briefing: Rulex Analytics

Rulex provides a new generation of advanced analytics tools. We offer Upside's first impressions from a business briefing.

Overcoming the Data Scientist Shortage: Democratizing Predictive Analytics

Collaboration, validation, education, and organization can help your organization democratize advanced analytics.

12 Real-World Solutions for IoT Analytics

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

Embedding and Operationalizing Analytics for Action: Three Important Takeaways

Close to 50 percent of TDWI survey respondents said they embedded models or algorithms into business processes in some way. What can we learn from these respondents?

Operationalizing and Embedding Analytics: 3 Best Practices for Taking Action

What good is analyzing data if you don't take action on it?

The Changing Face of Geospatial Analytics

Why geospatial and IoT are an important part of big data's evolution.

Four Reasons to Analyze Customer Behavior

How enterprises can engage, retain, and strengthen bonds with their customers.

5 Text Analytics Fundamentals You Should Know

Text analytics is becoming more mainstream and interest in it is growing. Here are five basic things about text analytics you need to know now.

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