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 exploits daily infrared images taken from satellites to track economic activity in advanced and emerging countries. We first develop a framework to read, clean, and exploit satellite images. Our algorithm uses the laws of physics (Planck's law) and machine learning to detect the heat...

The explosive growth in volume and varieties of data generated by the seemingly endless arrays of digital systems and applications is rapidly elevating the importance of being able to utilize data; in fact, data analytic literacy is becoming as important now, at the onset of the Digital Era, as...

This book combines the analytic principles of digital business and data science with business practice and big data. The interdisciplinary, contributed volume provides an interface between the main disciplines of engineering and technology and business administration. Written for managers,...