Data science for data-driven startups

Data science: software engineering or business intelligence?

Kind of a rant discussing the shift of Data Science towards technology and losing sight of the business value.

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How to escape the data monkey trap to leverage analytics

Do you feel spending more time getting the data instead of producing impactful insights? You are not alone. Let’s explore 4 ways to solve this.

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Data Warehouse Manifesto : Enabling agile analytics

After years of analytics pratice, we came to a set of opinions on how data warehouses should be built.

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Big data benchmark : Impala vs Hawq vs Hive

With the recent release of Pivotal HD, I wanted to check the current state of Hadoop SQL engines. SQL integration is growing in the Hadoop […]

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Price deal analysis

Price deal is a common method to boost sales. Steam push it to an art. There is always a lot of stuff to buy at […]

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The call for a Modular Data Warehouse

In those day of huge focus on the Big Data mouvement, it seems that nobody needs a data warehouse anymore but a huge cloud of […]

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Big data and mobile BI : New hype but same old issue

For the end of 2011, many around the blogosphere are forecasting what will be on hype next year. I often read that big data and […]

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About evaluation

When deploying a model, one very important thing is to monitor the results. Does it work like you’ve expected? I’m not talking about pre production […]

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Machine learning vs simulation

Lately, I was thinking on the difference between machine learning and simulation (for prediction).  Machine learning use historical inputs and outputs to find subsequent outputs. […]

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The cost of reducing costs

Predicting the number of sales representatives on a particular time on a particular store is harder than expected. If you instrument the whole process, you […]

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