Why I Ditched My Fitbit and What This Means for Analytics
When I first got a Fitbit, it was amazing. My daily dashboard, focusing mostly on a 10,000-step target, was incredibly motivating. Was I hitting the target? Answer: somet...
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Is deep learning a Markov chain in disguise?
Andrej Karpathy’s post “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks” made splashes last year. The basic premise is that you can create a recurrent n...
Using machine learning to generate music
Apart from fighting web spam, credit card fraud and many more curious applications, machine learning is being widely used in the field of art to generate stuff. We collec...
Choosing features for random forests algorithm
There are many ways to choose features with given data, and it is always a challenge to pick up the ones with which a particular algorithm will work better. Here I will c...
Why the Biggest Online Retailers are Opening Bricks & Mortar Stores – Infographic
Guest infographic from Patrick Thuot Learn more at SMS StoreTraffic...
Employee Flight Risk is a Curve, not a Single Score – Why This Matters
By Greta Roberts. It’s exciting to watch advances in predictive and prescriptive employee solutions. A public HR technology company recently announced the release of an...
The Naive Bayes Classifier explained
Reading the academic literature Text Analytics seems difficult. However, applying it in practice has shown us that Text Classification is much easier than it looks. Most ...
Make It So, Number One
I found some leftover hamburgers in the fridge. I decided to stack a couple of them together to form a colossal “super-burger.” At the time, I didn’t appreciate how...
Guide to Financial Statement Analysis / Ratio Analysis
This is the most comprehensive guide to Ratio Analysis / Financial Statement Analysis This expert-written guide goes beyond the usual gibberish and explore practical Fina...
Find Marketing Clusters in 20 minutes in R
Have you ever wondered how to segment your customers? Customer segmentation is a really useful technique to group similar customers together and understand what works for...