Has ‘big data’ been a hype? Yes and no. No, because the idea and technology behind big data will never go away. We will always want to get a grip on all available data, whether they are ours or...

Remember the movie ‘Moneyball’? The story of Billy Beane, Oakland A's general manager who successfully attempted to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated...

Big data holds a massive amount of opportunities, which lots of companies, organizations and governments are already exploring. Big data is no longer an "opportunity", it is our daily reality. Even...

Communicating with the customer used to be very simple: you either communicated ‘above the line’ or ‘below the line’. The ‘communication below the line’ could be summarized as direct...

The depth and duration of the financial crisis has led many banks and regulators to ask whether stress-testing practices were appropriate before the crisis, and particularly, whether they were able to...

In the early days of e-commerce, the physical retailers shrugged at the thought of online shops taking over their dominant position: “How can they ever replace the intimacy and physical contact...

We love it when analytics is used for public benefit. And we love it even more when this is the result of a PhD project. This is what happened in Mozambique recently when three scholars presented the...

Earlier this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the Zika virus a global public health emergency. The virus is spread by the so-called Aedes mosquito, which can be found in...

By embracing decisions at scale, organizations will reap far more return on their current analytics investment and enable their data scientists to better satisfy the organization's growing appetite...