Customer data mining (CDM) may be a fragmented market on the user side, but relatively few vendors control the space, according to evidence from a new Gartner report. CDM, defined by Gartner as "the ...

Predictive analytics, also know as data mining, is used to analyze information such as sales of consumer goods to identify trends and patterns and predict future outcomes. A retail chain could analyze ...

SAS and SPSS are the leading vendors in data mining, according Gartner's "Magic Quadrant for Customer Data Mining, 1Q06." Both companies are considered the clear leaders in this space, with no other ...

During my undergraduate days as a statistics student, I tried various data analysis tools to find the ideal one. I started with Excel until I was introduced to R and learned to use it through paid ...