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Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R on Will Hipson. Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) tries to identify clusters of individuals (i.e., latent profiles) based on responses to a series of continuous variables (i.e., indicators). LPA assumes that there are unobserved latent profiles that generate patterns of responses on indicator items. Here, I will go through a quick example of LPA to identify groups of people based on their interests/hobbies. The data comes from the Young People Survey, available freely on Kaggle.com. Here’s a sneak peek at what we’re going for: Terminology note: People use the terms clusters, profiles, classes, and groups interchangeably, but ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jess Frick; In the ever-changing landscape of online marketing, there’s one thing that hasn’t changed.Email marketing works, and it works well.It drives the highest ROI of all B2B strategies. In fact, studies show that email marketing campaigns earn $44 for every $1 spent. Nice.With email analytics, the more you know, the better, so you need to have a handle on your email marketing analytics.When it comes to email marketing, it’s crucial to understand exactly how your audience is interacting with the content showing up in their inbox. In this post, we will explore how to track ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Chris Hemedinger. Do you have a favorite television show? Or a favorite movie franchise that you follow? If you call yourself a "fan," just how much of a fan are you? Are you merely a spectator, or do you take your fanaticism to the next level by creating something new? When it comes to fandom for franchises like Game of Thrones, the Marvel movies, or Stranger Things, there's a new kind of nerd in town. And this nerd brings data science skills. You've heard of the "second screen" experience for watching television, right? That's where fans ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: James Konik; If you’re picking a project management tool, you’re spoiled for choice, with many platforms vying for your attention as people flock to the cloud. In this article, we’ll compare two of the best tools out there as we look at Monday.com vs. Asana. Both are popular, with Asana having a testimonial page full of high-profile customers, including NASA and The New York Times. Monday.com is also doing well, with over 50,000 teams using it, including clients such as Carlsberg, Philips and the Discovery Channel. In our roundup of the best project management software, Monday.com came ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Ayumi Owada. Sales data analyses can provide a wealth of insights for any business but rarely is it made available to the public. In 2018, however, a retail chain provided Black Friday sales data on Kaggle as part of a Kaggle competition. Although the store and product lines are anonymized, the dataset presents a great learning opportunity to find business insights! In this post, we’ll cover how to prepare data, perform basic analysis, and glean additional insights via a technique called Market Basket Analysis.Let’s see what the data looks like. We ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Bob Muenchen. Introduction JASP is a free and open source statistics package that targets beginners looking to point-and-click their way through analyses. This article is one of a series of reviews which aim to help non-programmers choose the Graphical User Interface (GUI) for R, which best meets their needs. Most of these reviews also include cursory descriptions of the programming support that each GUI offers. JASP stands for Jeffreys’ Amazing Statistics Program, a nod to the Bayesian statistician, Sir Harold Jeffreys. It is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and there is even a cloud version. One of JASP’s key features ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Chuck Powell. I recently had the need to run an ANCOVA, not a task I perform all thatoften and my first time using R to do so (I’ve done it in SPSS andSAS before). Having a decent theoretical idea of what I had to do Iset off in search of decent documentation on how to accomplish it in R. Iwas quite disappointed with what I found after a decent amount of timescouring the web (or at least I thought so). I found “answers” in placeslike “Stack Overflow” and “Cross Validated” as well as various free andopen notes ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: James Furbush; Fresenius Medical Care is a global Fortune 500 company based in Germany and North America that provides a range of services and products to help aid patients in renal dialysis and other medical needs. With 325,000 renal patients globally being cared for in more than 3,800 dialysis clinics, and more than 100,000 employees worldwide, Fresenius has become one of the top providers in the world for patients with kidney issues. APPS Quick BaseSalesforce VeevaPrologSAPSharepointCHALLENGES Facility projects needed better data and more efficient workflows in order to complete construction faster and provide patients ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Ronald Caldwell; Now more than ever, businesses need flexibility for their services.What happens when you have outgrown Virtual Private Servers (VPS)? What do you do when you need the scalability of the cloud and also the resources of a physical, dedicated server?If you need hosting for:Resource-hungry websites & applicationsMultiple websites of all kindsDatabases with or without the webserver on the same serverReselling hosting to clientsLiquid Web’s Cloud Dedicated Servers provide a great solution worth considering. It is important for websites, applications, and platforms to be able to scale and have their hosting environments grow with them ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Peter Cooper. This article is the second in a four-part series designed to help companies maximize their ROI on the Internet of Things (IoT). In the first post, we discussed how IoT can transform businesses. In this post, we share insights into how to create a successful strategy that yields desired ROI. The Internet of Things (IoT) holds real promise for fueling business growth and operational efficiency. However, many companies experience challenges applying IoT to their businesses. In an earlier post, we discussed why and how to get started with IoT, recommending that companies shift ... Read More