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Article sponsored by Sisense:  Businesses are gaining insights from data that simply were not possible just a few years ago. This capability is powered by a new breed of data visualisation tools, and the ability to morph complex data into a form that is suitable for analytical purposes. While most…

What is the Internet of Things? The internet we are most familiar with is the Internet of People. You and I interacting, either anonymously or personally via web pages, social networks, or whatever mechanism suites our purpose. The Internet of Things is primarily concerned with interactions between devices of various…

Big data is exciting, full of potential, and dangerous. The term now encapsulates data mining, business intelligence, predictive analytics, data visualization, and pretty much everything else we might want to do with data. So, here are five ways you can really damage your business with big data: Predictive Analytics and…

Business Intelligence Software Vendors 2015 The essence of a Fat Free Guide is brevity, and so there will be no feature-by-feature comparisons, which are fairly meaningless anyway. Each product is positioned for its particular strengths, and it is then up to the user to decide on the capability they actually…

Understanding Data Mining and Business Intelligence To get started with this we need to define these two terms. Data mining is the act of trawling through historical data with the aim of finding patterns that might be useful in the future. Business intelligence is concerned with looking at historical and current…

Enterprise Analytics Enterprise analytics should deliver unambiguous models, avoid duplicated effort, provide ample mechanisms for monitoring model performance and resulting business performance, promote transparency, and support the discovery of opportunities and risks buried in data. We can state fairly categorically that this will not happen unless the analytical environment is integrated.…

Neural Network Data Mining Explained Neural network data mining uses artificial neural networks, which are mathematical algorithms aimed at mimicking the way neurons work in our nervous system. They are in essence large curve fitting algorithms, adjusting equations until the prediction matches with reality. For this reason it is very…

Fat Free Guide to What is Business Intelligence? Business intelligence is the eyes and ears of your business – or at least it should be. We use business intelligence technologies to tell us what is happening in our business and to diagnose any problems. In fact these are the two…

Guide to Predictive Analytics The goal of predictive analytics software is to create predictive models which can predict the outcome of future events, with an accuracy that is greater than is currently possible. This is achieved by trawling through historical data, looking for patterns that might be useful predictors of…