by Nate Watson | May 6, 2019 | Featured Posts, News
Machine Learning, Business Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence are buzz words that are being thrown around at planning sessions a lot these last few years. They have real meanings that most people don’t understand. They are using them to mean “more...
by Nate Watson | Oct 1, 2018 | Featured Posts, News
Here at Contemporary Analysis, we believe good data visualization is the key to understanding data and making data-driven decisions from it. We have worked with multiple companies (including nonprofits) over the years to provide valuable visualizations of their data,...
by Nate Watson | Jun 29, 2017 | Featured Posts, News
The age-old Python or R debate always rages here at CAN. While we have a pretty impressive staff of data scientists who all have their individual quirks (Some like to run in their spare time, some bird watch, some of them binge-watch obscure sci-fi), they have...
by Nate Watson | Oct 10, 2012 | News
Predictive analytics (or Big Data) is here to stay. You may not understand it. You may not believe that it really works. But the reality is this: your competitors (and it may be just one or two of them) are using predictive analytics to chew up market space as you...
by Nate Watson | Aug 22, 2012 | News
Visualizing data can make something easier to understand and perhaps keep you awake. Most students have learned that the cure for insomnia is take a difficult concept, like the philosophical concept of determinism, and explain it with words alone. In case you don’t...
