This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet / TechRepublic special feature, explores how you set up an analytics infrastructure that sees around corners and gives you options to avoid a head-on crash. Read ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS ...

When a patient walks into a doctor’s office with a symptom, there are few ways for a physician to look at the situation. There is a descriptive perspective, which looks to the past and says, “Aha! The ...

Data analytics help investors analyze investment data for better decision-making. Descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics offer varied insights. Techniques like regression and ...

Descriptive analytics -- looking into what has happened in the past -- is commoditized. Traditional BI, reports, and dashboards are well understood and used in one way or another across a wide ...

A typical organization loses 5% of its revenues to fraud each year, and, in the U.S. alone the total cost of (non-health) insurance fraud is estimated at more than $40 billion per year, according to ...