Hey, I'm Tomi Mester. This is my data blog, where I give you a sneak peek into online data analysts' best practices. You will find articles and videos about data analysis, AB-testing, research, data science and more…Tag: big data
A question that I get often is this: “Should an aspiring data scientist learn more about big data (e.g. Apache Hadoop or Spark) to get a job?” I’ll…
Note: to get the most out of this article, you should not just read it, but actually do the coding part with me! If you don’t have the…
Last week I promised to continue with the second Part of Predictive Analytics 101. If you haven’t read Part 1, please do that here: Predictive Analytics 101 Part 1….
Predictive analytics is not a new or very complicated field of science. As I mentioned before, it’s easy for anyone to understand at least the essence of it….
The first step for every data science project is data collection, that is, getting the actual raw data. There are two ways to do this: A) You can…
“Big data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they…