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Statistics Can Lie, Big Data Ethics and More

There were some excellent comments yesterday on the post about statistics — and some great references. “Statistics can produce alternative facts. When you can’t agree with the facts you have no basis for a rational decision. Then when you make a decision based on alternative facts you can tweak the statistics to tell whatever story you want since there are […]

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Big Data Analytics with the Microsoft Analytics Platform System Appliance

Big Data Analytics with the Microsoft Analytics Platform System Appliance Author: Basit A. Farooq Data warehouses are the central repository containing all relevant data (internal or external) for enterprise information and decision support systems. These repositories provide high quality information, that is, subject-oriented, integrated, time-invariant and non-updatable, for the data analysis purposes to support enterprise’s management processes and business decisions....

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Big Data Analytics with the Microsoft Analytics Platform System Appliance

Big Data Analytics with the Microsoft Analytics Platform System Appliance Author: Basit A. Farooq Data warehouses are the central repository containing all relevant data (internal or external) for enterprise information and decision support systems. These repositories provide high quality information, that is, subject-oriented, integrated, time-invariant and non-updatable, for the data analysis purposes to support enterprise’s management processes and business decisions. […]

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Gearing up the Business for Data Analytics–Part II

Gearing up the Business for Data Analytics—Part II In the previous article we touched upon a number of steps in Data Analytics. In this article and the subsequent articles let us dig a little deeper into each step. To recap on the article, the first step in data analytics is creating the “Statement of purpose” or rather a list of...

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