This is a very long article. A PDF can be downloaded here. Summary The proclamation that data is our greatest latent asset is often made, and usually without much elaboration. Other than being a convenient cliché for technology suppliers, what does this assertion mean? To answer this question, we need…
ClicData vs Tableau 2017 In brief: ClicData will be more than adequate for many people’s needs, particularly if they simply want to create dashboards of varying degrees of complexity. The cost of ClicData may also be an order of magnitude lower than Tableau for many configurations. Tableau, on the other…
ClicData Review 2017 Summary ClicData is positioned as an easy-to-use business dashboard application hosted on the cloud. It certainly fulfills this function well, making it extremely easy for users to load data and create dashboards. When I first reviewed ClicData some three years ago, it was clear that the product…
In most respects SAS sets the standard for breadth of functionality in a statistical analysis suite. However, not everyone needs that level of functionality (or cost), and so here is a list of free alternatives to SAS statistics that many users will find quite adequate. Dataplot is a free, public-domain,…
Article contributed by Danish Wadhwa: Big data is all about using tools and processes to generate insights from a bulk of data. This data has one of three characteristics – high speed, extreme variety, and large volume. The correlations and conclusions that big data derives are comprehensible and are difficult…
Jinfonet Software has just released JReport 15, a productive BI platform used widely by OEMs and in a corporate setting. The press release is below: Jinfonet Software, a leading embedded analytics and reporting software provider, announces the general availability of JReport 15. This latest release offers breakthrough innovations in streamlining…
Zoho Reports Review Summary Zoho Reports is a cloud based BI service that compares well with many prominent BI platforms. It comes with a rich visual environment, interfaces to a large number of data sources and applications, comes with native support for mobile devices, strong embedding functionality, and functional extensibility.…
This list of the best embedded BI platforms is led by GoodData simply because it offers the most sophisticated embedding technologies and services, and has a very good appreciation of the power of embedded analytics in a production environment. The rest are listed in alphabetical order. GoodData provides technologies and…
Five free python deep learning tools listed below: Blocks is a framework that helps you build neural network models on top of Theano. This products also occurs in the following lists: 30+Free Deep Learning Tools Hebel is a library for deep learning with neural networks in Python using GPU acceleration…