One of the ways Deep Learning can be used in business is to improve the accuracy of time series forecasts (prediction). We recently showed how a Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) Models developed with the Keras library in R could be used to take advantage of autocorrelation to predict the ... [Read more...]

Data science tools are getting better and better, which is improving the predictive performance of machine learning models in business. With new, high-performance tools like, H2O for automated machine learning and Keras for deep learning, the performance of models are increasing tremendously. There’s one catch: Complex models are ... [Read more...]

Information Security (InfoSec) is critical to a business. For those new to InfoSec, it is the state of being protected against the unauthorized use of information, especially electronic data. A single malicious threat can cause massive damage to a firm, large or small. It’s this reason when I (Matt ... [Read more...]

We are ready to demo our new new experimental package for Algorithmic Trading, flyingfox, which uses reticulate to to bring Quantopian’s open source algorithmic trading Python library, Zipline, to R. The flyingfox library is part of our NEW Business Science Labs innovation lab, which is dedicated to bringing experimental ... [Read more...]

Last November, our data science team embarked on a journey to build the ultimate Data Science For Business (DS4B) learning platform. We saw a problem: A gap exists in organizations between the data science team and the business. To bridge this gap, we’ve created Business Science University, an ... [Read more...]

Time series prediction (forecasting) has experienced dramatic improvements in predictive accuracy as a result of the data science machine learning and deep learning evolution. As these ML/DL tools have evolved, businesses and financial institutions are now able to forecast better by applying these new technologies to solve old problems. ... [Read more...]

We recently had an awesome opportunity to work with a great client that asked Business Science to build an open source anomaly detection algorithm that suited their needs. The business goal was to accurately detect anomalies for various marketing data consisting of website actions and marketing feedback spanning thousands of ... [Read more...]

We are pleased to announce that our Data Science For Business (#DS4B) Course (HR 201) is OFFICIALLY OPEN! This course is for intermediate to advanced data scientists looking to apply H2O and LIME to a real-world binary classification problem in an organization: Employee Attrition. If you are interested applying ... [Read more...]

The R programming language is a powerful tool used in data science for business (DS4B), but R can be unnecessarily challenging to learn. We believe you can learn R quickly by taking an 80/20 approach to learning the most in-demand functions and package... [Read more...]

We’re happy to announce the third release of the tibbletime package. This is a huge update, mainly due to a complete rewrite of the package. It contains a ton of new functionality and a number of breaking changes that existing users need to be aware ... [Read more...]

We’re happy to announce the third release of the tibbletime package. This is a huge update, mainly due to a complete rewrite of the package. It contains a ton of new functionality and a number of breaking changes that existing users need to be aware ... [Read more...]

Data science for business (DS4B) is the future of business analytics yet it is really difficult to figure out where to start. The last thing you want to do is waste time with the wrong tool. Making effective use of your time involves two pieces: (1) selecting the right tool ... [Read more...]

Customer churn is a problem that all companies need to monitor, especially those that depend on subscription-based revenue streams. The simple fact is that most organizations have data that can be used to target these individuals and to understand the key drivers of churn, and we now have Keras for ... [Read more...]

The EARL Boston 2017 conference was held November 1 - 3 in Boston, Mass. There were some excellent presentations illustrating how R is being embraced in enterprises, especially in the financial and pharmaceutical industries. Matt Dancho, founder of Bus... [Read more...]

We’re at the final day of Business Science Demo Week. Today we are demo-ing the h2o package for machine learning on time series data. What’s demo week? Every day this week we are demoing an R package: tidyquant (Monday), timetk (Tuesday), sweep (Wednesday), tibbletime (Thursday) and h2... [Read more...]

We’re into the fourth day of Business Science Demo Week. We have a really cool one in store today: tibbletime, which uses a new tbl_time class that is time-aware!! For those that may have missed it, every day this week we are demo-ing an R package: tidyquant (Monday), ... [Read more...]

We’re into the third day of Business Science Demo Week. Hopefully by now you’re getting a taste of some interesting and useful packages. For those that may have missed it, every day this week we are demo-ing an R package: tidyquant (Monday), timetk (Tuesday), sweep (Wednesday), tibbletime (Thursday) ... [Read more...]

We’re into the second day of Business Science Demo Week. What’s demo week? Every day this week we are demoing an R package: tidyquant (Monday), timetk (Tuesday), sweep (Wednesday), tibbletime (Thursday) and h2o (Friday)! That’s five packages in five days! We’ll give you intel on ... [Read more...]

We’ve got an exciting week ahead of us at Business Science: we’re launching our first ever Business Science Demo Week. Every day this week we are demoing an R package: tidyquant (Monday), timetk (Tuesday), sweep (Wednesday), tibbletime (Thursday) and h2o (Friday)! That’s five packages in five ... [Read more...]

Sales, customer service, supply chain and logistics, manufacturing… no matter which department you’re in, you more than likely care about backorders. Backorders are products that are temporarily out of stock, but a customer is permitted to place an order against future inventory. Back orders are both good and bad: ... [Read more...]