The OptimalBI team loves open source and is also mad about data. Alison wrote a blog on Open source datasets already, and because there's more options out there, I thought I would give you some more places to get open data from for your various data needs. I have...
When you ventured out to the supermarket during lockdown, I bet you noticed waaaay less traffic on the roads. I live in the Wellington CBD, and it was really weird walking around with no people, no traffic for weeks. It got me wondering about the data; Thankfully...
This week we welcome Guest Blogger, Bill Grant from the AllGo Analytics Limited. Bill is an experienced data professional with a new business focused on performing data analytics for small and medium-sized business. Take it away Bill … FACT SHEET 1: What is Market...
I was talking to somebody recently who had been dropped into the deep end in the world of Business Intelligence (so to speak) at their organisation and wanted to know what was required to be able to deliver information and some advanced analytical models. I was...
A conference in a castle was just too good an opportunity to pass up, RapidMiner ran their annual conference Wisdom in the beautiful city of Ljubljana, Slovenia. It's been over a year since we started working with this toolset in earnest so a good time for one of us...
It's becoming clearer to me with every passing week that the future of data work is multi-tool; in a few years it won't be enough to just be "an R person" or "a SAS expert". That makes easy integration between tools even more important, so analysts can leverage...
This is the first in a series of blogs about me learning to use RapidMiner with Shaun McGirr who is one of OptimalBI's Analytical Modellers and a RapidMiner expert. What is my goal? As OptimalBI's community manager I spend a lot of time and effort on Twitter sharing...
Here I am in front of San Francisco's City Hall, recovering from jet lag in the sunshine. I've just returned to Wellington after a brief working trip to the United States. The first week I was in San Francisco attending RapidMiner's Basics 1 & 2 training, and it...
The R 3.1.2 console running inside RapidMiner Studio 6.2! Update: RapidMiner have changed the way they do R integration. You can read about how to install the new way in this post: https://optimalbi.com/blog/2015/08/13/improved-rapidminer-and-r-integration-is-here/...
Last week I blogged about proving RapidMiner Server's capability to run models on large datasets. The task was to check if RapidMiner's memory-limited (ie cheaper) licenses restrict the available analytical models. That can happen in other analytical software, when...