Outliers deviate from the norm—significantly enough to give marketers pause. But outliers can tell us more about our data, how we gather it, and what is in it, if we examine the entire data set ...

Machine learning algorithms aren't just technological novelties relegated to tasks like picking out faces in crowded places. In the enterprise, they can surface patterns and relationships that would ...

Data analytics deals with making observations with various data sets, and trying to make sense of the data. When dealing with very large data sets, automated tools must be used to find patterns and ...

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After previously detailing how to examine data files and how to identify and deal with missing data, Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research now uses a full code sample and step-by-step directions ...