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

Unifying DW and DL: 6 Key Questions

Questions our analysts didn't have time to answer in a recent webinar highlight key considerations for moving to a unified data warehouse/data lake.

By James G. Kobielus, Fern Halper
October 6, 2021

Don’t Forget the Back End of the Machine Learning Process

Not planning for putting models into production can lead to project failure or increase the amount of time needed to deploy a model.

By Fern Halper
December 8, 2020

Tackling Bias and Explainability in Automated Machine Learning

Automated machine learning is likely to introduce two critical problems. Fortunately, vendors are introducing tools to tackle both of them.

By Fern Halper
August 17, 2020

The Impact of COVID-19 on Data and Analytics Professionals

Results of a new TDWI survey show the impact COVID-19 is having on the work of data and analytics professionals in the U.S.

By Fern Halper
May 20, 2020

The Gender Pay Gap That Won't Go Away

TDWI's 2019 salary survey reveals that although there is some good news for women, the wage disparity between men and women in data and analytics remains.