Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Data for Analytics in Small Businesses -- Chapter 3: Business Analytics Consulting -- Chapter 4: Business Analytics Consulting Phases -- Chapter 5: Descriptive Analytics Tools -- Chapter 6: Predicting Numeric Outcomes -- Chapter 7: Classification Techniques...

This paper introduces a new Stata® command, dynemp, which implements a distributed micro-data analysis of business and employment dynamics and firm demographics. The data source it requires are business registers or comparable firm- or establishment- level longitudinal databases which cover the...

Dementia is increasing in prevalence, and to date has no cure or treatment. One element in improving this situation is using and sharing data more widely to increase the power of research. Further, moving beyond established medical data into big data offers the potential to tap into routinely...

This working paper describes the potential of the proliferation of new sources of large volumes of data, sometimes also referred to as “big data”, for informing policy making in several areas. It also outlines the challenges that the proliferation of data raises for the production of...

The aim of this volume is to provide an introduction and selective overview of the rapidly emerging field of computational economics. Computational economics provides an important set of tools that an increasing number of economists will need to acquire in order to understand and do...