Berni Simmons

In today’s volatile and highly competitive job market, the pressure on HR teams has never been greater. Organisations are finding

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is an AI methodology that builds on the now ubiquitous LLM (Large Language Model) framework. RAG

For more than a decade we have been helping social housing providers gain insight and understanding into how their tenants

While data science and machine learning are related, they are very different fields. In a nutshell, data science brings structure to big data while

IBM SPSS Statistics provides a powerful suite of data analytics tools which allows you to quickly analyze your data with

How to turn insights into action One of the challenges that organisations most commonly face when conducting data science and

In my most recent blog post I wrote about the benefits and opportunities that cloud computing brings to data science

We are living through a golden age of technological innovation and revolution. Whether it’s the blending of real time data,

The good news is, it is a product that is still very much alive and in development, albeit it has

Many of our clients regularly hire new analysts and we’re often involved in discussions about what the core skills are

Many of the analysts we speak to are being pushed over to R, primarily because it’s open source and therefore

As we help our clients get up and running with the predictive analytics tools and skills they need, we see some

We spend a great deal of our time at Smart Vision helping our clients to establish the use of predictive

Prescriptive analytics is a relatively recent development beyond the broader disciplines of predictive analytics and data science. In this blog

In this blog post I’m going to suggest  some ways in which predictive analytics can help retailers weather the economic

I talked in my last blog post about the confusion that often emerges around how much data is enough to

When I’m talking to prospective clients something I hear a lot is ‘but we don’t really have enough data to

It never ceases to surprise me at the wide array of interesting and smart folks we have the privilege to

Predictive analytics can really pay dividends for charities but I often find that such organisations are reluctant to invest in

The Anna Karenina principle describes an endeavour in which a deficiency in any one of a number of factors dooms