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The thin lines: business intelligence (BI), business analytics (BA), and data analytics

There is so much hype and interest in Business Analytics (BA), it begs the question of digging deep into hives. I was curious in finding...

Your Journey to Data Science Maturity (by Kirk Borne)

Great, short visual summary produced by Kirk Borne. Highlights: Computational Ask the right questions Design thinker Willingness to fail...

An Unexpected Use of AI

Back to the heydays of Youtube, when it was all about amateur videos. Here, with a modern twist: A guy (me) dancing while listening to...

AI: Robots Helping Each Other (Nice Video)

Interesting video by Boston Dynamics about robots helping each other to open a door. Maybe next time it will be about robots fighting...

The one critical skill many data scientists are missing

When I started to learn about data science and consider it as a career choice, there was a diagram that I came across regularly and still...

Most Data Science Job Ads are Targeted to Young People - Why?

If you are on Facebook, you've probably seen their ads to attract candidates to data science positions. You've probably seen ads...

Big Data Isn’t a Thing; Big Data is a State of Mind

“Big Data is dead.” “Big Data is passé.”“We no longer need Big Data; we need Machine Learning now.”As we end 2017 and look forward to big...

Lessons in Becoming an Effective Data Scientist

I was recently a guest lecturer at the University of California Berkeley Extension in San Francisco. On a lovely Saturday afternoon, the...

What Happens when our Computers get Smarter than we are?

Artificial intelligence is getting smarter by leaps and bounds -- within this century, research suggests, a computer AI could be as...

Machine Learning Poised to Impact Business Analytics

We may be years away from the “AI-enabled Coworker,” but the first implementations of machine-learning capabilities are finding their way...

7 Visualizations You Should Learn in R

With ever increasing volume of data, it is impossible to tell stories without visualizations. Data visualization is an art of how to turn...

Simple questions to measure the ability of a data scientist

Sometimes a recruiter will find difficult to know the skills of a data science before hiring. Here are some simple questions to measure...

Even a Poor Model Can Have a Lot of Value

This is a lesson in how it may be possible to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. 1.) A good ROC score does not necessarily mean a...

Are we comparing the countries correctly?

How many times you have compared your homeland to another country when you have watched a foreign language movie/show or when you have...

The Theory of Theory

Since I am sometimes asked to explain phenomena in the absence of data, it becomes necessary to determine what data is required to...

Big Data Isn’t a Thing; Big Data is a State of Mind

“Big Data is dead.” “Big Data is passé.” “We no longer need Big Data; we need Machine Learning now.” As we end 2017 and look forward to...

What Exactly is Artificial Intelligence and Why is it Driving me Crazy

Advanced analytic platform developers, cloud providers, and the popular press are promoting the idea that everything we do in data...

Innovación y tecnología, las claves para la educación del futuro

El Dr. José Escamilla, director de TecLabs, compartió con los medios la necesidad de aprovechar la tecnología en la educación. Tec de...

Podcast: Evolution of Analytics in the Market (Tom Dougherty)

Today we will talk with Tom Dougherty who is currently Director of Marketing Analytics at Life Extension. He told us how he has seen the...

Análisis: La ‘secesión’ de pueblos mexicanos ante la desconfianza en el Estado

José Santos en un punto de revisión a la entrada de Tancítaro, Michoacán, donde los ciudadanos asumieron el control ante el fastidio...