Clustering non-numeric -- or categorial -- data is surprisingly difficult, but it's explained here by resident data scientist Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research, who provides all the code you ...

Gathering and entering numbers on a computer is one of the most laborious aspects of data management. Ten-key data entry expedites this process, focusing only on the number keys, 0 through 9, which ...

Here's a complete end-to-end demo of what Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says is arguably the simplest possible classification technique. The goal of a machine learning classification ...

When you're using your Macbook Pro to enter in numeric data such as sales figures, payroll or other data related to your business, you may find using the number keys at the top of the keyboard is a ...

Sparklines in Microsoft Excel are charts—tiny little charts that display inline with the data because they fit into a cell, usually adjacent to the data they’re evaluating. With a quick glance, not ...

The facts of climate change are widely reported. NASA notes, for example, that with a two-degree-Celsius increase in global temperatures, as compared with a 1.5-degree-C increase, about 61 million ...

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Data visualization is a process in data analytics where visual representation communicates the data and insights to facilitate good data-driven decisions. Basically, data visualization is ...

Have you ever found yourself drowning in an ocean of data, endlessly scrolling through rows and columns in Excel, hoping to find that one critical insight? For anyone managing large datasets, the ...