Introduction Brake test is a time consuming and costly operation for the factories. The plant needs to shut down the robots to perform the test. It worth exploring to see if it is possible to predict the test results based on historical data. At the time of this writing, we approach this problem as...
In Part I of this blog post we discussed what big data is and how Big Data is changing industries. We start looking at the retail industry as an example. In part II we will take a closer look at the effect of big data on the retail industry. How Retailers take advantage of...
Introduction Shifts in technology, more specifically Information Technology (IT), have been changing everything around us. Big Data, as an example of shifts in technology, is taking the IT industry by storm and this impact is just not limited to the IT industry. Retail enterprises, for instance, have leveraged Big Data in many aspects of...
Now more than ever before, companies are utilizing data analysis to improve decision-making. However, the value of analytics is no longer just for companies; the value has now extended to the private life with access to affordable hardware and open source tools. Individuals can now benefit from data science methods to make a decision....
Introduction The pharma industry is investing more and more in data science for various purposes including targeting more effectively and discovering better investment opportunity. One of the more recent application of data science in the industry is Social Network Analysis based on health claims data. The hypothesis is that social networks can be analytically derived based...
The problem In the previous blog post, I tried to rank cities of United States based on the different type of data, Zillow housing prices, for instance, to find my next home. During the effort, I realized that Zillow dataset only contains 48% of the counties in the United State. To put my machine learning...
I'm about to finish my master's degree so I need to make up my mind to choose a place to settle down. Boston, where I live right now, is a great city but not only are housing prices skyrocketing but also according to Investopedia "Groceries and health care cost a lot of money in...