To polish my analytics chops, I took a 24 class analytics course online. Here's my review of The Great Courses' Big Data Analytics offering - as well as some big data misconceptions highlighted by the ...

The mass amount of data collected by industries, retailers, and organizations requires knowledgeable professionals who can collect, mine, and analyze as well as store, retrieve, and manage data. These ...

All of us in pro AV and digital signage need to understand big data, analytics, and content management systems, and how they affect and interact with one another. For those who did not read the first ...

Because many of the interesting applications in data analytics are in the field of marketing, Marketing Research is also a foundational course. While this course is technically an elective, students ...

Accounting combines three things many people enjoy: problem-solving, money, and working with people. And thanks to the use of data analytics in accounting, these parts of the job are more exciting, ...

No doubt: The extent of the impact businesses could have by integrating this information into their decision-making processes is massive. But there’s something else at play as well. Alex “Sandy” ...

Supply chain management is a field where Big Data and analytics have obvious applications. Until recently, however, businesses have been less quick to implement big data analytics in supply chain ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. In an era where almost everything is touted as being “big data” how do ...

One implication of ubiquitous sensing as evidenced by the rapid growth of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is the explosive increase in data being collected. This data comes from myriad sources: According ...

In May 2011, the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company released a research report titled Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity. This was a seminal report, ...