Data Mining

Can you work with Big Data in Excel? From the barrage of recent news, white papers, and sales calls about Big Data, you would think not. A common theme is that “spreadsheets can’t handle Big Data and advanced analytics,” and that companies need to “move up” to...

Over the past decade, thousands of organizations have made their data available to the public, either by posting an extract online or through an API. These data sets range from government data to restaurant reviews to metadata on songs. One of the more famous...

MBA students want to learn the skills they'll need to be effective business managers. They study accounting and finance, sales and marketing, production and operations, human resources, and many other topics. But today, analytics skills have become essential...

What comes to mind when you hear the word "analytics"? Maybe you picture a few graphs or charts depicting the last quarter's revenue with a nice blue arrow pointing "up." If so, you're not alone - many believe that analytics only involves data visualization,...