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Regression Analysis of Weather Impacts on Spokane City Crime Rates
Project Overview By combining historic Spokane Police Department crime incidence data and…
Text Mining Sentiment Analysis – Intermountain West Cities
Project Overview By utilizing text mining tools, insights can be gained around…
The Future of Analytics
Over the past ten years, analytics has grown so much. I think…
Framework of Communication for Data Analytics Projects
Data analytics projects can provide value to organizations, however, without proper communication,…
Using Analytics in Business
Analytic projects can be helpful for businesses to gain more value. Businesses…
Text Mining for Local Governments
For local governments, there are many different situations where text mining could…
Data Science Techniques – Ensemble Modeling
In addition to the standard techniques in data science, ensemble modeling is…
Starbucks’ Data Analytics Integration in Business Strategy
Many companies are now starting to integrate data analytics into their business…
Analytical Engineering Approaches
Similar to how engineering and science work together, analytical engineering is the…
What Are ROC Graphs?
Receiver Operating Characteristics graphs, or ROC graphs, can be a useful approach…
Naive Bayes and Bias in Data Science
A key aspect of science, including data science, is the ability to…
What Does Similarity Mean?
Similarity is a concept that is well experienced in everyday life, however,…
Nearest Neighbor Analysis
A nearest neighbor analysis can be a useful type of predictive modeling…
Avoid Overfitting Models
Good data models can be used to generalize and predict future observations.…
Understanding Classification vs Regression Analysis
As a general rule of thumb, I think that identifying the difference…
Information Gain
A key aspect to data mining is understanding the data available. Not…
Data Science Algorithm Types and Sustainability
When performing data mining, there are a lot of different algorithms that…
Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM)
The Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) is a formalized…
Finalization of “Paris Rule Book”
In December 2018, global leaders met in Katowice, Poland to finalize the…
Ethical Issues in Analytics
For me, the largest ethical issue that is most concerning is data…
Self-Service Analytic Tools
Data software that allows interactive and real-time exploration of data and visualizations…
Is Excel Still Useful?
Microsoft Excel has been used for multiple decades and has been a…
Value Management Strategies
Selling the value of analytics within an organization is a key to…
Evaluating Success of Analytics Projects vs IT projects
Like information theory, IT projects typically involve collection, storage, and retrieval of…
Structured vs Unstructured Data
Structured data consists of formatted data fields that hold pieces of information…
Bad Data is Hazardous
In a 2001 study, The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) estimates that poor…
Sustainability and Data Analytics
I found an excellent GreenBiz article that listed a variety of AI…
Caution Advised With Data – Watch for Nonlinearity
The cautionary advice that stuck out to me the most in the…
Business Intelligence vs Data Analytics
Often the terms business intelligence and data analytics are used interchangeably in…
Correlation vs Causation Real-World Example
Occurrences of mistakenly tying correlation to causation are commonplace in society. Correlations…
Select Metrics Wisely
A point in the Harvard Business Review book, HBR Guide to Data…
Asking the Right Questions
When Dan Price, CEO of Gravity Payments, announced he was going to…
Data Projects – Start Large or Start Small?
Both large and small analytics projects have their place in organizations. The…
Are Data Scientists Jobs Targets for Automation?
While I think quite a few jobs and activities are optimal targets…
Analytics and Business Strategy
Analytic projects can come in various sizes, big or small, as well…
Wells Fargo Utilizing Data Analytics
Wells Fargo is making large investments in not only analytics but also…
Open Source Big Data Project From NOAA
Having worked in an atmospheric research lab during my undergrad back in…