Monthly Archives: August 2015

Data Visualization—Worldwide Small Business Analysis

Author: Jiamin Chen

The inspiring art in data analytic is visualized information.  The booming of data visualization is changing how we think and feel.  Data visualization convey complex concepts and stone-cold data into something more understandable and communicative.

The goal of this article is to demonstrate how data visualization could add value to business decision making process by providing information quickly and crisply based on a real case study for worldwide small business analytic. The dataset studied here is called “Doing Business”, which is provided and downloaded by World Bank, http://databank.worldbank.org/data/views/variableselection/selectvariables.aspx?source=doing-business.

Our analysis could be used to determine the best economy that provides conducive business environment to start and run a small business. … Read more

IERA Update 082815

Author: Changyue Song

In this version, we add some wonderful features to our platform. What’s new:

1. Subscription of the main site blogs is enabled for all users. Users will receive an email for a new article in our main site. You can change the settings in “Dashboard/Subscribe”.

2. Forum digest is enabled for all users. Users will receive an email every day containing the active topics in the forums in the past 24 hours. You can change the settings in “Dashboard/Your Profile/Forum Digest Emails”, or in “Settings/Forum Digest” of your personal page.

3. Subscription of forums is enabled. If you subscribe a forum, you will receive an email for a new topic in the forum.… Read more