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When business people talk Big Data, they often focus on the complexity of dealing with enormous data volume, but that’s changing. Volume alone does not pose the challenge it once did. For example, the ...

Designed to introduce students to quantitative methods in a way that can be applied to all kinds of data in all kinds of situations, Statistics and Data Visualization Using R: The Art and Practice of ...

In a move to beef up its portfolio of analysis software and services, Microsoft is acquiring Revolution Analytics, a major commercial distributor of the R statistical programming language. R is one of ...

In today’s world, data is not just numbers on a spreadsheet. It’s the fuel driving smarter decisions, stronger businesses, and even personal growth. Data analytics has become one of the hot deals ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...

One of the most basic decisions to make when implementing a data analytics solution is where it should perform its data processing, and what types and how much to do there? On the ...