James McWhinney is a long-tenured Investopedia contributor and an expert on personal finance and investing. With over 25 years of experience as a full-time communications professional, James writes ...

What are the differences between gathering and analyzing quantitative and qualitative information? Better yet, how can you develop these skills and use this knowledge in a real-world job? Quantitative ...

Mary Hall is a editor for Investopedia's Advisor Insights, in addition to being the editor of several books and doctoral papers. Mary received her bachelor's in English from Kent State University with ...

I love teaching with visualized data: something as simple as running a text through Wordle (a word cloud tool) can reveal all sorts of fun things about what’s going on in a text through making ...

Many statistical practitioners prefer JMP, SPSS, and Minitab to R and SAS because using the latter grouping requires learning a computer software language instead of point and click interface. The ...

Every time I discuss the use of data analytics with a business owner, I get a similar response: “We don’t have time to analyze those details.” The vast amount of analytical work in today’s business ...