New data-gathering techniques, often referred to as "Big Data" have the potential to improve statistics and empirical research in economics. In this paper we describe our work with online data at the Billion Prices Project at MIT and discuss key lessons for both inflation measurement and some...

New data-gathering techniques, often referred to as “Big Data” have the potential to improve statistics and empirical research in economics. In this paper we describe our work with online data at the Billion Prices Project at MIT and discuss key lessons for both inflation measurement and...

The digital economy challenges many of the basic assumptions of competition law. With the rise of big data and big data analytics, one question has become particularly pressing: to what extent should privacy considerations and data protection laws filter into competition law assessments? The...

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Use of EHR Data for Scientific Discoveries--Challenges and Opportunities -- 1.1. Real-World Data and Real-World Evidence: Big Data in Practice --...

The article is focused on issues of the secure operation of official statistics in Ukraine during the application of martial law. It was found that the gaps in conventional sources of statistical data caused by the war needed to be filled with data from alternative sources, including Big Data....

Business today relies on effectively using data to predict trends and sales. Predictive analytics is the tool that can make it happen, and this book eliminates the tricks and shows you how to use it. You'll learn to prepare and process your data, create goals, build a predictive model, get your...

Predictive Analytics For Dummies, 2e will help the you understand the core of predictive analytics and get started putting it to use with readily available tools to collect and analyze data. You will learn how to incorporate algorithms through discovering data models, identifying similarities...