Here’s a new tool of interest for R users. Check out RStudio.
RStudio™ is a new integrated development environment (IDE) for R. RStudio combines an intuitive user interface with powerful coding tools to help you get the most out of R. RStudio brings together everything you need to be productive with R in a single, customizable environment. Its intuitive interface and powerful coding tools help you get work done faster.
And here are some comments from Flowing Data.
According to DBMS2, there are six useful things you can do with analytic technology:
* You can make an immediate decision.
* You can plan in support of future decisions.
* You can research, investigate, and analyze in support of future decisions.
* You can monitor what’s going on, to see when it necessary to decide, plan, or investigate.
* You can communicate, to help other people and organizations do these same things.
* You can provide support, in technology or data gathering, for one of the other functions.
Read the DBMS2 article for more info.
DBMS2 lists off 6 things to do with analytics.
Analytics means a lot of different things to different people and companies but if there is one commonality across the majority of companies, it’s that analytics is significantly underutilized to drive the business.
1 to 1 Media provides a bit more color.
IBM has acquired SPSS and more recently acquired business analytics firm Red Pill. Now they are announcing an internal analytics product called Blue Insight, the largest private cloud computing business analytics environment in the world. Check out the Techcrunch article.
It is helpful to get other peoples’ perspectives about what sort of customer metrics can be beneficial to track and Kevin Hillstrom has put together a pretty good list. Check it out.
Here’s a video of a panel discussion from the recent OMMA Metrics & Measurement Conference in NY.
Here’s a link for more…
Here’s a great article from DataWrangling about using Amazon’s Cloud services to analyze traffic data from Wikipedia. The 320 GB data set is available to the public here.
