The Mint newspaper has come out with an interesting article on how the banking industry is using business analytics to prosper. Below is an excerpt from the article: “One of the first instances of the use of analytics (in banking in India) can be traced back to the early 2000s when HDFC Bank Ltd, now […]
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For many who are trying to start with data analytics, R comes across as a good programming tool being free and famous. But then you stumble onto a big hurdle before you can even type an ‘r’ of R [oh i wish they had given a longer name to R]. The word “programming” scares half […]
In keeping with the election spirit in India and the heated debate around the manifestos of the three main parties fighting the 2014 general elections, BJP, Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), we decided to analyse their manifestos in terms of word frequencies to figure out where the focus of these three parties lies. […]
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 […]
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 […]
