Data analysis and Big Data

In spring, the flowers and trees blooming look very attractive but also signal a release of pollen which triggers allergies and hay fever in many people. Many drugs have become available to combat the symptoms but the release of pollen is significant. There is not much that can be done to control the amount of…

It is easy to see mathematics when you look at common things that we take for granted. For example the following pages were created from a website: http://ptaff.ca/soleil/?lang=en_CA. The raw data can also be got from the link below. Take a look at these graphs and think about what can you see. Steven Strogatz saw…

Data mining has several methods that analyze the data and come to conclusions on the data. The tools are a mixture of statistics, mathematics and reasoning. The tools are very useful and they help in come to conclusions very well. So if you are in the business of selling a commodity to the youth through…

There are several ways to search for information and often times the easiest is to just type the keyword in a search engine like Google and hope that it would find the article of interest. However, things are not quite simple when you look for things and hundreds of hits come up. For example, if…

There are many ways to understand data mining and there are several tutorials on the subject. Dr. Susan Holmes at Stanford has been teaching and practicing different statistical methods and has significant insight into the process of teasing out information from complex data sets. She made an interesting observation in “The Theory that would not…

It is known through significant psychological research that humans are very sensitive to loss. That means the sad feeling of loss is much stronger than happiness feeling of gain. This manifests itself in strange ways. For example, in the stock market, the possibility to avoid a loss makes people take wrong decisions – they delay…

In treatment of cancer, there has been a significant thought in the value of personalized medicine. In general there is agreement that each cancer is slightly different and therapies need to be targeted specific for different patients. However, since each combination of therapy is unique, they have to be customized for the patients. This works…