Should You Get A Degree In Business Analytics Or Data Science by/via @Analyticsindiam

Business analytics and data science are often used interchangeably but are different at many levels. While both are used in solving business problems and decision-making processes in organisations, both have different job descriptions and skills requirements.

Interesting career advice that could prove invaluable and save making a mistake on the way you choose between these two subjects.

16 Free and Open-Source Business Intelligence Tools by Samuel Scott via @DZone

Companies need to analyse all of the data that they collect — and that is where data science and business intelligence tools come in.

I have experience of using 9,10,15 and 16 but know nothing much about the others - it might be fun to try some of them to see if any of them are better.

Beginner’s guide to Design of Experiments (with case study on banner advertisement) via @AnalyticsVidhya

An interesting elaboration on how companies develop their "design of experiments" to analyse customer requirements and accordingly coming up with marketing strategies for maximum customer likings.

Brilliant article on AnalyticsVidhya explaining how marketing experiments are designed and how to measure them.  Well worth a read.

Optimisation Analytics Comes to the Mass Market via @infomngmt

Once the preserve of data scientists and operations research specialists, optimisation will become mainstream in general purpose business analytics over the next five years.

Great blog from Information Management.

Can’t Find a Data Scientist? Turn to a Business Analyst via @Data_Informed @cchristopher

With a shortage of data scientists to meet demand, businesses should look to business analysts to take on many tasks that previously were the responsibility of the data scientist, writes Chael Christopher of New Vantage Partners.

I do agree with him to a point.  I would add that there are a lot of MOOC free online courses (for example the Data Science specialisation by Johns Hopkins) which that person could do to add a little more knowledge in the areas they need to add.

What’s the difference between Causality and Correlation? via @AnalyticsVidhya

Do you end up using the words Causation and Correlation interchangeably? These similar sounding names have different fundamental implications.  Great blog from Analytics Vidhya explaining the difference between the two words.