Social Customer Intelligence Trends – BRIDGEi2i Infographic

According to eMarketer’s forecasts, worldwide business-to-consumer (B2C) ecommerce sales were expected to increase by 20.1% in 2014 to reach $1.500 trillion.

The human foot forward into the 21st century has ushered the big guns of globalisation and modernisation to severely impact every step taken. Numerous products, commodities, amenities and services are at our disposal making the desire to availability mapping incredibly robust.

Model Risk Management (MRM). One may wonder why talk about it now when it’s been nearly 3 years since the OCC guidelines were published. But before that let’s define MRM. It is the integrated process of managing model risk through a model’s entire lifecycle and in the process ensure a governance rhythm that is regulations compliant. Similar to OCC, various countries have framed regulations that could impact model governance. And this is a first in a series of blogs that can highlight the regulatory requirements and model governance parameters.

Open source has successfully penetrated into many of the commercial companies. Many industries have released libraries and tools in open source that have reduced development effort. Analytics industry has also benefited from open source software.

When we look at targeting, it is a combination of the target segment, the medium and the timing of that are of paramount importance. Missing out important details and failing to connect the dots through these vital elements may lead us to a situation …

This is a tutorial for Enlive, an HTML templating library written in Clojure. Using Enlive, we can have a pure HTML template created by a UI designer, and have a Clojure developer add the dynamic content without having to mix code and html, like other template systems (e.g. JSP, Velocity etc).

In the previous blog, we examined the concept of Open Access and its application in the academic research. Open Access (OA) business models for universities and institutions are gaining traction due to the benefits it provides for the enthusiasts, students of the research domain and those who apply research in practical contexts.

Developers are often interested in learning about the software industry’s best practices, so that they can improve the robustness and efficiency of their code. The best way to learn is by reading the source code of programs that are in production and running heavy workloads.

While it is amply clear that enormous data is created on the internet, there is no standard structure being followed in webpages, each one has its own structure so getting data into our application is always a herculean task.

Just like any other Tableau junkie out there, I am hooked onto the premise of Tableau Public – a free tool that lets you use any data across the web (the only limitation being they should be fed from a flat file) and create beautiful, interactive visualizations that natively lend themselves to social engagement.

Pigs eat anything! Pig leaves everywhere! Pigs are domestic!…and most importantly Pigs Fly!!! Well…at least Apache Pig can! Apache Pig can operate on data whether it has metadata or not. It can operate on data that is relational, nested, or unstructured.

So much has happened in the social space since then and much has been said about the growth of social media — its multiple channels and the enormous scope of its content and subject matter. Social media seems to offer something for everyone.

There is a long way to go before India truly claims women empowerment. The number of female awardees from 2011 to 2015 was only 21% of the total awardees. For the states like Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh that had higher sex ratio, have contributed only 12% of the total female awardees.

This blog discusses the applications of Monte-Carlo simulation methods by modeling real-world situations, explaining those using well known and often researched statistical distributions such as the Poisson distribution and then applying optimization models…

As per Wikipedia “A simple definition of analytics is the science of analysis… Business managers may choose to make decisions based on past experiences or rules of thumb, or there might be other qualitative aspects to decision making”.