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Data Digest: Hidden Benefits of Big Data, Visualization Benefits, and Best Practices for BI

• By Quint Turner
• March 17, 2016

Supervised vs. Unsupervised Learning (Part 3 in a Series)

Will a new website visitor be a good customer? We look at two approaches to creating an analytical model that can help you answer that question.

• By David Loshin
• March 17, 2016

Understanding the Engineer’s Data Access Challenge

Data management has been focused on storage with access an afterthought. We must take the reverse approach, thinking in terms of data access first.

• By Manuel Terranova
• March 17, 2016

BI/Analytics Forecast Needs a Closer Look

Some claim business intelligence has had its day. Not according to Gartner.

• By Steve Swoyer
• March 16, 2016

Data Digest: Focus on Big Data Analytics

Big data's effectiveness, plus fusing marketing with data science and using a citizen data scientist to find your big data footing.

• By Quint Turner
• March 16, 2016

How Machine-Learning Techniques Use Methods (Part 2 in a Series)

These six machine-learning techniques are worth getting to know.

• By David Loshin
• March 16, 2016

Data Digest: Securing IoT, Selecting BI Tools, and IoT and Advertising

A checklist for proper IoT security, plus best practices for picking a big data BI tool and tips for unlocking that latent potency of IoT in advertising.

• By Quint Turner
• March 15, 2016

Doling Out Bragging Rights for Advanced Analytics

SAS, IBM, KNIME, RapidMiner, and Microsoft posted strong showings in Gartner’s February 2016 Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms report, though Microsoft fell short of market leadership.

• By Steve Swoyer
• March 15, 2016