August 2021

This post offers a brief introduction to three important predictive analytics application areas – customer analytics, operational analytics, and threat and fraud analytics. Further, the four key steps of the predictive analytics process are outlined. You may also be interested in What is data mining? Three important application areas of predictive analytics This section outlines

This post introduces decision tree for classification problems. A decision tree is a representation for classifying instances. Decision tree learning is one of the most successful techniques for supervised classification learning. You may also be interested in What is data mining? Introduction to decision tree for classification problems The simplest decision tree has only one test

This post outlines five core skill areas of a data analyst. Data analytics is “the collection, transformation, and organization of data in order to draw conclusions, make predictions, and drive informed decision making.” A data analyst has three core roles: “The data analyst is generally someone who works with SQL, spreadsheets, and databases, might work