Scrum methodology to implement Agile philosophy for Analytics teams.

Waterfall Methodology

Traditionally analytics teams have followed a waterfall methodology to project management. This involves dividing the project into sequential steps involving requirement gathering, development, testing, delivery, and maintenance. The benefits of this approach are that budgeting is easy, however on the flip side there is less to no contact with the customer after the requirement gathering stage up until delivery.

Agile Philosophy

Agile is an alternative philosophy that strives to make production process more efficient and manageable. Agile staggers the project into consecutive iterative sprints. There are many different project…

This is the third of a series of articles that I will write to give a gentle introduction to statistics. In this article we will cover how we can visualize data using various charts and how to read them. I will show how to create these charts using SAS and will include code snippets as well. For a full version of the code visit my GitHub repository.

SAS has an in-built procedure called sgplot that allows you to create several kinds of plots. Also available is proc univariate which allows you to create histograms and normal probability plots, also known…

This is the second of a series of articles that I will write to give a gentle introduction to statistics. In this article we will cover how we can visualize data using various charts and how to read them. I will show how to create these charts using Python and will include code snippets as well. For a full version of the code visit my GitHub repository.

Python has many libraries that allow creating visually appealing charts. In this article we will work with the in-built tips dataset and then plot using the following libraries:

import seaborn as sns tips…

A three part article series on version control using Git and GitHub.

This is the first article in the series in which I will give a very brief introduction to Git. This will allow most readers to understand enough to utilize it for version control during development.

Lets start with some definitions. Git is a source control software allowing you to take snapshots and distribute your creations and modifications over time.

Before we learn about Git, lets quickly look at a few basic terminal commands, as we will be using Git on terminal.

• Terminal (for Unix or Mac) or Command Prompt for Windows allows us to type Git commands and manage project repositories. …

Learn how to automate repetitive or complex tasks using the power of Excel VBA.

Most modern programming languages have a set up similar building blocks, for example

1. Receiving input from the user and Showing output to the user
2. Ability to store values in variables (usually of different kinds such as integers, floating points or character)
3. A string of characters where you can store names, addresses, or any other kind of text
4. Some advance data types such as arrays which can store a series of regular variables (such as a series of integers)
5. Ability to loop your code in the sense…

Co-author: Richard Vogg

Acquiring a new customer in the financial services sector can be as much as five to 25 times more expensive than retaining an existing one. Therefore, prevention of customer churn is of paramount importance for the business. Advances in the area of Machine Learning, availability of large amount of customer data, and more sophisticated methods for predicting churn can help devise data backed strategy to prevent customers from churning.

What is markdown?

Markdown is a lightweight markup language used to create rich text using a plain text editor. It is often used for formatting readme files and for creating static webpages using Jekyll. Some of its popular cousins form the markup family are HTML and XML.

Following table provides a quick overview of frequently used Markdown syntax elements. It does not cover every case, so if you need more information about any of these elements, refer to the reference guides for basic syntax and extended syntax.

Most modern programming languages have a set up similar building blocks, for example

1. Receiving input from the user and Showing output to the user
2. Ability to store values in variables (usually of different kinds such as integers, floating points or character)
3. A string of characters where you can store names, addresses, or any other kind of text
4. Some advance data types such as arrays which can store a series of regular variables (such as a series of integers)
5. Ability to loop your code in the sense that you want to receive 10 names from a user, you will write the…