The demand for more and more analysis of IoT data has been growing exponentially with the explosion of connected devices. Unfortunately the cost and time associated to analyze this data has also grown exponentially as data volumes keep getting larger and larger. An enterprise client, who has been collecting data from millions of devices, has […] continue reading »
In this day and age, it has become more and more apparent that data is scaling and changing beyond the ability of human-powered machine learning to make the most of it. This makes enhancing current analyses with deep learning all the more necessary. Our team invested heavily in developing a trading model that could continue […] continue reading »
Overview Data.gov is an open source of data provided by the US government that provides a wealth of interesting information ranging from agriculture, education, finance, health, science, etc…Currently, it lists over 200,000 datasets available to explore. In this 5 Minute Analysis, we picked one dataset from the consumer data category, specifically the Financial Services Consumer […] continue reading »
Sales data analyses can provide a wealth of insights for any business but rarely is it made available to the public. In 2018, however, a retail chain provided Black Friday sales data on Kaggle as part of a Kaggle competition. Although the store and product lines are anonymized, the dataset presents a great learning opportunity […] continue reading »
Amazon continues to be one of the most popular marketplaces in the US as well as the world due, at least in part, to its variety of product categories and product reviews. But how accurate are these reviews? Do sellers or their competitors try and influence them in any way? Does the Verified Purchase tag […] continue reading »
We’ve all heard about the many improvements and changes being made to help get women into Hi-Tech and the Sciences, but where are these improvements being seen? Is the entire nation reaching gender equality or are there pockets of improvement and pockets of stagnation. These are the questions I set out to answer using the […] continue reading »
Diving into CDC Behavioral Risk Factor data using Pivot Billions to learn what exercise behaviors are associated with improved health. Motivating yourself to go outside and get some exercise or play a sport can be hard, but it is worth it. I had trouble with this myself but after looking into the CDC’s […] continue reading »
Managing data just keeps getting tougher. The more we think we’ve gotten a handle on our data the more it grows and becomes too large for our existing analyses. This issue became very clear to me after I undertook the task of trying to understand the effectiveness of ad campaigns using SiteCatalyst weblogs. Seeing as […] continue reading »
With a population of over 800,000 people within approximately 47 square miles, San Francisco is one of the most densely populated cities in the United States. Cities with this level of population density must contend with a high level of policing activity to ensure safety. I wanted to explore just how safe it actually is […] continue reading »
Overview It’s been a few weeks since we posted something in our 5 Minute Analysis series, so we decided to do two quick analyses on two different datasets we found on Kaggle. Instead of doing the analysis locally using PivotBillions on Docker, we opted to run the analysis in the free cloud version available on […] continue reading »
