Contributor: Fern Halper
Fern Halper, Ph.D., is vice president and senior director of TDWI Research for advanced analytics. She is well known in the analytics community, having been published hundreds of times on data mining and information technology over the past 20 years. Halper is also co-author of several Dummies books on cloud computing and big data. She focuses on advanced analytics, including predictive analytics, text and social media analysis, machine-learning, AI, cognitive computing and big data analytics approaches. She has been a partner at industry analyst firm Hurwitz & Associates and a lead data analyst for Bell Labs. Her Ph.D. is from Texas A&M University. You can reach her by email (fhalper@tdwi.org), on Twitter (twitter.com/fhalper), and on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/fbhalper).
All articles by Fern Halper
Rulex provides a new generation of advanced analytics tools. We offer Upside's first impressions from a business briefing.
- By Fern Halper
- April 18, 2016
Collaboration, validation, education, and organization can help your organization democratize advanced analytics.
- By Fern Halper
- March 22, 2016
Our interviews with a dozen vendors that have a strategic focus on the Internet of Things and the analytics products to support it reveal that IoT analytics is more than a passing fad or the latest buzzword
- By Fern Halper
- February 26, 2016
Close to 50 percent of TDWI survey respondents said they embedded models or algorithms into business processes in some way. What can we learn from these respondents?
- By Fern Halper
- February 4, 2016
What good is analyzing data if you don't take action on it?
- By Fern Halper
- December 15, 2015
Why geospatial and IoT are an important part of big data's evolution.
- By Fern Halper, Ph.D.
- November 17, 2015
How enterprises can engage, retain, and strengthen bonds with their customers.
- By Fern Halper, Ph.D.
- August 25, 2015
Text analytics is becoming more mainstream and interest in it is growing. Here are five basic things about text analytics you need to know now.
- By Fern Halper, Ph.D.
- June 23, 2015