The majority of raw data, particularly big data, doesn’t offer a lot of value in its unprocessed state. Of course, by applying the right set of tools, we can pull powerful insights from this stockpile ...

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 ...

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 ...

Predictive analytics is the practical result of Big Data and business intelligence (BI). What do you do when your business collects staggering volumes of new data? Today's business applications are ...

When a patient walks into a doctor’s office with a symptom, there are few ways for a physician to look at the situation. There is a descriptive perspective, which looks to the past and says, “Aha! The ...

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 ...