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• How to Map your Professional Network with Google Earth

  

  By chco : 26 February 2011 - 08:50 AM

  This excerpt from Mining the Social Web applies k-means to the problem of clustering your professional contacts and plots them out in Google Earth. To create a nice visualization of this data you'...

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• Data Analysis: Simulating the Newsvendor Problem in Python

  

  By janert : 10 February 2011 - 02:10 PM

  I’d like to introduce one more idea that is often relevant when dealing with business plans and calculations on how to find the optimal price or, alternatively, the optimal inventory level for some ...

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• How to Calculate Net Present Value to Determine the Value of an Investment or Project

  

  By janert : 08 February 2011 - 12:51 PM

  Imagine we are running a manufacturing plant (or perhaps an operation like Amazon’s, where books and other goods are put into boxes and mailed to customers—that’s how I learned about all these t...

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• How Data is Used for Analysis via Reports

  

  By janert : 07 February 2011 - 02:04 AM

  The primary means by which data is used for “analysis” purposes in an enterprise environment is via reports. Whether we like it or not, much of “business intelligence” revolves around reportin...

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• Some Suggestions for Computationally Intensive Problems

  

  By janert : 03 February 2011 - 05:14 PM

  Computational and combinatorial programming is really different. It runs into different limits and requires different techniques. Most important is the appropriate choice of algorithm at the outset, s...

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• Data Analysis: Understanding the Bootstrap

  

  By janert : 02 February 2011 - 04:57 AM

  The bootstrap is an alternative approach for finding confidence intervals and similar quantities directly from the data. Instead of making assumptions about the distribution of values and then employi...

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• Data Analysis: Simulating the Monty Hall Problem in Python

  

  By janert : 31 January 2011 - 02:20 PM

  A way that simulations can be helpful concerns situations that appear unfamiliar or even paradoxical. Simulations allow us to see how the system behaves and thereby to develop intuition for it. Supp...

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• Data Analysis: Understanding Simpson's Paradox

  

  By janert : 31 January 2011 - 12:20 AM

  Look at the table below which shows applications and admissions to a fictional college in terms of the applicants' gender and department. MaleFemaleOverallDepartment A80/100 = 0.89/10 = 0.989/110...

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• Sample data - SQL Pocket Guide 2nd edition

  Asked by Major Gripe : 30 January 2011 - 02:58 AM

  

  Answered by Major Gripe : Jan 30 2011 10:20 AM
  Have figured it out now, please ignore this Q. full answer >

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  • SQL

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• When and How to Use Conditional Plots (Co-Plots) for Data Analysis

  

  By janert : 28 January 2011 - 02:25 PM

  In contrast to scatter-plot matrices, which always show all data points but project them onto different surfaces of the parameter space, co-plots (short for “conditional plots”) show various slice...

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