News & Updates
December 5, 2014
From a Business Analyst to a Big Analyst
The world of traditional business analysis is well-known. Interesting challenges and state of the art methodologies guide the work of a business analyst (BA) - from the discovery and gathering of requirements through to the design of the business req ...
December 5, 2014
When WANs "half fail"
Have your Internet or WAN links ever performed below the advertised specifications, but because of a lack of evidence and/or performance statistics, you were unable to prove it? Well, we recently faced such an issue and I would like to share with you ...
November 13, 2014
The Value of Data - A short guide to learn how to maximise the value of your data.
This is an excerpt from the white paper available here. Over the last few years the data industry has been shaken to its core. We have new names, roles, technologies, products coming out on a daily basis. The term "Big Data" has been overused so much ...
November 13, 2014
Vowpal Wabbit for Windows and Binary for Win x64
Getting VW working on windows is a real pain. Even though I had the whole environment set up as described on the readme it still took me a good couple of hours to build. So with absolutely no guarantee or support options here is my built version of v ...
November 5, 2014
Property Market Predictions - PicNet Predictive Analytics
This post explores options for the application Machine Learning techniques to the Australian residential property market with the objective of predicting insights that would be useful for buyers, sellers and the industry. With access to good data it ...
November 5, 2014
The value of Kaggle to Data Scientists
Kaggle is an interesting company. It provides companies a way to access Data Scientists in a completion like format and a very low cost. The value proposition of Kaggle for companies is very clear; this article will focus on the flipside of this equa ...