The Background of Data Science Roles It was thought a few years ago that 2018 would amount a huge demand-supply gap in the Data Science market as supply would fail to keep pace with the rising demand for expert data scientists. However, the buzz from Gartner, which said more than 40 percent of Data Science […]
Traveling in the Age of COVID-19: Big Data Is Watching
Click to learn more about author Bernard Brode. With news of the first dose of a vaccine successfully administered, it appears that we might finally be seeing the beginning of the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it’s also clear that the impact of the virus — and the ways we have responded to it […]
Credulous Data Science: Part Two – Surveys
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. This is the Second Part of a two-part series. Read Part One here. About ten years ago, a software vendor with whom my intelligence consulting company partnered conducted a survey on the usage of various analytics platforms that were then prominent in the space. As a proselyte […]
Simplistic and Credulous Data Science: Part One
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. A few months ago, I was solicited by one of my many LinkedIn Data Science groups to participate in a survey. I’m generally a bit suspicious of surveys, reviewing the questions carefully before making the decision to respond. This initiative, though, posed a question that quite intrigued […]
Analytics vs. Data Discovery
Newer and faster data channels are enveloping the digital business landscape, so business operators and users are becoming more demanding about what they want from their data. Now, the traditional Business Intelligence (BI) platforms are no longer sufficient to address all types of business queries; users are increasingly looking toward the Data Discovery capabilities of […]
Computational Social Science
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. It seems I write something on the nature of Data Science every year. Early on, my take on DS was in motion, but now it’s much more grounded. My points of Data Science departure are the iconic “what is DS” pronouncements from Drew Conway and David Donoho. […]
Dawn of the Chief Digital Officer
The term “CDO” has typically refered to Chief Data Officer. But some industry leaders make the case for revising it to mean Chief Digital Officer. One of them is Langley Eide, Chief Strategy Officer at Data Science and Analytics platform vendor Alteryx. A Chief Digital Officer title, she says, “leans forward into digital transformation,” and […]
Stock Market Performance: A look at Russell indexes in R
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. I just completed the annual “maintenance” on my little stock market indexes returns “app”. I’ve supported a variant of the script for seven years, changing it pretty significantly year to year. The 2016 version was half python and half R, but this year I opted for R […]
Alteryx Connect Unveiled – Enables Business Users to Make Data-Driven Decisions Faster
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “Alteryx, Inc., a leader in self-service data analytics, today announced Alteryx Connect, a data exploration platform that empowers users to discover and collaborate on data assets, visualizations, reports and workflows typically siloed across large enterprises. With Alteryx Connect, users can easily find curated data and relevant information […]
Data Exploration in R – Part I
With the analytics work I’ve been involved with over the last 15 years, I estimate that 70% of the effort has been devoted to data access/integration/wrangling/curation, about 20% focused on data exploration, and the remaining 10% fitting algorithms/models. SQL and the open source platforms R and Python have been primary computation platforms, and now provide […]