Diapers, Beer, and Data Science in Retail

When asked for white papers or case studies on how predictive analytics works, I often give a few stories on how different industries use analytics to find patterns in their data and then apply that knowledge to their existing data to predict what future trends are...

CAN Navigators Help You Work Smart

CAN’s goal is to use predictive analytics and data science to help our client’s work smart.  While predictive analytics and data science can help a company generate more profit, the technology can be very complicated and the process very cumbersome.  CAN...

Using Tableau Reference Lines to Explore Data

At CAN, as needed we use the visualization software Tableau to create reports and dashboards for our clients.   Also, because Tableau is capable of handling large amounts of data very quickly, we’ve started using it to explore data visually during the data discovery...

Why Jefferson Decided to Join CAN

Jefferson joined CAN before we had this blog, our website, our products, or our office at 1209 Harney St.  This video is about how and why he decided to join Contemporary Analysis.  He knew we had potential and decided to become apart of CAN’s future and the...

Tadd and Jefferson go Mining for Data in Wyoming

CAN is helping one of our clients improve their asset management strategy, by building predictive models to determine when heavy equipment is most likely to fail. CAN’s asset management models will allow our client save hundreds of thousands of dollars each...