On 19th Feb, 2014, Facebook announced the acquisition of Whatsapp, a mobile messaging service with over 450mn users for an eye-popping US$ 19 bn of cash and Facebook shares in total. This figure seems insane for a company which charges some of its users US$ 0.99 every year for its services and reportedly had revenues […]
All of us at some point in the process of examining data, check for correlations among different variables in the data especially pair-wise correlations. Among a large chunk of business analysts in industry, there exists a notion of ‘linear correlation coefficient’ being the only criterion for pair-wise correlation and hence at the maximum a Proc Corr is run in […]
It always provides us a great deal of happiness, satisfaction and motivation when we are able to successfully help our students achieve their goals, as that is Edvancer’s sole driving factor. A student of ours, Ashish Kumar sent us some great words of appreciation and encouragement through his review of our business analytics course below. […]
Analysis has been in existence since the inception of mankind. In some form or another we as human beings have always analysed people, processes or things around us. In the past this was based only on gut-feel, beliefs, judgements, pre-conceived notions and on what we had seen happening previously. Analysis today is done more scientifically […]
We are proud to say that the widely read Analytics India Magazine has ranked Edvancer amongst India’s top analytics and big data training institutes. According to them “80% of all top analytics executives in India quote “lack of talent” as their biggest challenge. Finding trained analytics workforce in India is a nightmare for employers. As […]
Edvancer Eduventures has started offering a range of analytics courses in India. Currently they are running a ‘Certified Business Analytics Professional’ (CBAP) course and will be launching 2 more courses in R and Big Data in coming months. We had an opportunity to talk with the CEO, Aatash Shah and here are some excerpts from the […]
Edvancer Eduventures has started with a view to make an intervention in India’s inadequate education system which only provides degrees but not skills or knowledge which industry desires. On the one hand we have corporates across industries crying out for skilled talent and on the other hand we have millions of talented students graduating every […]
