The lowdown :
An actuary is an expert who applies statistical and mathematical methods to assess financial and other risks relating to various contingent events such as mortality, sickness, injury, retirement and property loss from theft, accident, fire or any other hazard. An actuary uses data analysis for valuation of financial products in the field of insurance,
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Is the Indian outsourcing scene going through a paradigm shift in terms of adding value to their clients? Analytics niche companies and the analytics division of established outsourcing companies might just elevate Indian outsourcing companies from mere cost cutting vendors to full-fledged strategic business partners. The following Economic Times article talks just about this paradigm
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We all love the “hard” side of analytics. What we often struggle with as analysts is what you might call the “soft” side of analytics, which is always more challenging than the “hard” stuff. Here are a few of the reasons why.
Many times, the problem is not insufficient data, defective data, inadequate data models or
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Dig for gold
Data mining is a hot new job, and it’s making number crunching sexy. Prasun Chaudhuri looks at what it takes to become a data whizkid
Mousum Datta is a miner who digs out precious resources. But his form of mining doesn’t involve drilling machines or gigantic trucks — just smart software, immense patience and
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Maths magic
CAREER IN MATHS ● Mathematics graduates are in great demand in a host of establishments, ranging from analytic firms to biotechnology labs. Indeed, this is the golden age of mathematics, says Kavitha Shanmugam
Narayan Bhamidipati works in a recently started division of Yahoo! Labs in Bangalore. His work is called computational advertising — figuring out
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Certification and licensure testing company, Castle Worldwide, relies on SAS Analytics in its work with businesses, nonprofit associations and governments. Using SAS Office Analytics for Midsize Business from the leader in business analytics, Castle applies analytic rigor to help meet the moral and legal burdens of proof and the measurement accuracy required for standardized tests.
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Data analytics is not a new phenomenon, but its power and infiltration among companies have increased tremendously in the past few years, causing the increase in demand for data scientists or data analysts. Contrary to popular belief, analytics is not only about gathering data using software tools and creating dashboards and reports. Analytics goes beyond
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The following article has been sourced from www.allanalytics.com (a premier blog for analytics related resources) and is authored by Beth Schultz, Editor-in-chief.
Advanced analytics consultant. Analyst. Data miner. Data scientist. Predictive modeler. Statistician.
Call an analytics professional what you will, but all these titles -- even the new and trendy data-scientist label -- essentially describe the same
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What do they do?
Market research analysts gather information that affects potential sales of products and services that are available to consumers. They use statistical data that is available from businesses and organizations from previous sales to help predict the outcome of future sales. Analysts also gather data from competitors and research prices, sales, marketing techniques
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Today, almost everyone who is connected to the Net, is present on at least one networking website, be it Facebook, Twitter or Myspace. For workaholics, the most popular professional networking site is LinkedIn.
According to the Kelly Global Workforce Index 2011, which covered 97,000 people across 30 countries and 2,000 people in India, about 35% of
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Did you know that while writing an email to many people within the workplace, the addresses have to be in the hierarchical order? Have you been at the receiving end of the unforgiving 'Reply All' tab? Or been horrified to see the unfortunate typo for luck? If you have checked in yes to at least
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The world wants to be online, but only a handful of people understand the medium in depth. The art of understanding the intricacies of web is the key to develop your business on the ever-changing platform. This requirement has created a whole new career option for web enthusiasts who understand the platform well and know
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The next set of innovation for India Inc. will revolve around the ‘Big Data’ or data analytics, according to Pramod Haque, managing partner at the US-based venture capital firm Norwest Venture Partners. Speaking at the recently concluded VCCircle Bengaluru Investment Forum, Haque said that the impact of big data would be akin to what ERP
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IBM India led the domestic Indian software market in 2010 with a 31.4% share in the industry's revenues last year, according to research firm Gartner Inc.
Customers, such as HDFC, SBI, Bharti Infratel and Indian Railways, contributed to IBM India's 55% market share in the application infrastructure and middleware ( AIM) software segments. IBM competes with
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What factor enables one organization in the same industry or government sector as another to get more value from applying analytics?
In sports played with a racket or paddle (like tennis or Ping-Pong), the phrase “it’s all in the wrist” sums up what many believe provides the primary winning edge for the superior player.
With the emergence
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Marketing is a broad term in its own way. It has its own unmatched standards. It has various categories, one of which is Social Media Marketing. Internet gave some space for social networking to its users that encouraged Social Media Marketing. In fact, it has been one of the hottest topics in the marketing world
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