One of the crucial decisions while doing data analysis is an appropriate choice of statistics software and language. In this article, I am going to analyze and help you choose the right data mining and statistics software for your purpose. I have used the following 12 software / languages (tools) with different levels of experience
Please read the disclaimer about the Free PDF Books in this article at the bottom R, an open-source statistical and data mining programming language, is slowly but surely catching up in its race with commercial software like SAS & SPSS. I believe R will eventually replace SAS as the language of choice for modeling and
Killer Dashboards Some time ago I came across an Excel based dashboard with around 45 tabs, and every tab had around 10 charts/ graphs /tables. That is roughly 450 figures and tables. I could only sympathize with the end audience of that dashboard. Unfortunately, almost every organization is deluged with meaningless reports and dashboards of
The topic we are going to discuss today will fit into visual analytics and data visualization – 101. Though on the surface this is really simple, over the years I have seen many young and sometimes seasoned analysts make this mistake. Hence I feel it is apt for us to discussion the topic about appropriate