In this special guest feature, Will Fellers, Product Manager at Quantum Spatial Inc., explores different types of analytics – descriptive, predictive and prescriptive – and discusses how companies can ...

I was watching a short video by Babson College Prof. Thomas Davenport on the Harvard Business Review website recently and found it to be a good, simplified explanation of analytics. (Stop! Don't swipe ...

Descriptive analytics -- looking into what has happened in the past -- is commoditized. Traditional BI, reports, and dashboards are well understood and used in one way or another across a wide ...

The phrase "big data explosion" is quickly becoming a cliche in the business intelligence space. By now, those who are familiar with how quickly data is being generated are well aware that the ...

Nasheb Ismaily is a seasoned big data and cloud software engineer. He currently works for Cloudera as a senior solutions engineer. As federal agencies grapple with increasing demands to meet the ...

We’ve all heard the phrase “data-driven decisions” in reference to organizational leaders aspirations' to use hard facts and figures to inform their business decisions. In higher education, the core ...

While predictive analytics have been an ed tech buzzword in recent years, they are but a midpoint in the evolution of data analytics in higher education. What began as descriptive analytics, the ...

What will the analytics and IT infrastructure for big data ultimately look like? At Partners HealthCare, chief information officer James Noga is already envisioning that. Noga will be discussing those ...

Here we explore the ways predictive analytics and prescriptive analytics are being used in the call center today, and trends to watch for tomorrow. Predictive analytics can help evaluate behavioral ...

As consumers, we reap the benefits of data and analytics in our daily lives all the time. For example, according to a recent Prosper Insights & Analytics survey, 56% of U.S. adults use voice activated ...