I n troduction In today’s data-saturated world, successful businesses aren’t just collecting data but making sense of it. Whether you’re a startup looking to optimize operations or an established enterprise aiming to uncover new revenue streams, business analytics is the key to unlocking smart, strategic decisions. But getting started can feel overwhelming without the proper foundation. That foundation starts with the tools . From organizing raw data to visualizing insights and making data-backed decisions, the right business analytics tools can help transform your business from reactive to predictive, even prescriptive. In this article, we’ll explore five essential tools that every business needs to build a solid analytics strategy and how they fit into a broader data engineering solution designed by data engineers. Top 5 Tools for Business Analytics Power BI / Tableau: Visualize to Realize The first thing that likely comes to mind w...
Introduction Natural Language Processing — the application of software systems to examining, interpreting and accurately responding to speech is viewed as the next big leap in user interface technology. However, human speech is far more complex than most people realize. There are rules, such as spelling and grammar. How we interpret speech and text, though, is far less well-defined. How do you know when a person is being sarcastic, for example? How do we know that an athlete’s explosive sprint to the finish line didn’t involve any pyrotechnics? In human language, the words can say one thing, but the context and the tone make those words mean something else. It takes humans a half a lifetime to learn the subtle nuances of language. Even then, there will be words and phrases that some of us don’t understand. Then, there are further complications in understanding language, such as dialects and colloquialisms. So, how can a computer that “thinks” in binary be programmed, line by line,...