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In my most recent blog post I wrote about the benefits and opportunities that cloud computing brings to data science
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Over the past two years I’ve noticed a steady stream of articles in the mainstream press and business journals centred
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In my career I’ve seen many examples of successful and unsuccessful data mining projects. I’m often asked how clients can
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When talking to companies who have yet to invest in predictive analytics I am often asked if I am sure
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What is a data scientist? The predictive analytics field seems to love nothing more than giving a new name to an established
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When I’m talking to prospective clients something I hear a lot is ‘but we don’t really have enough data to
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It never ceases to surprise me at the wide array of interesting and smart folks we have the privilege to
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Big data is everywhere at the moment. There’s a lot of talk about it, much of which presents big data
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