Click to learn more about video blogger Laura Kahn. This is Lesson 16 in the Data Science in 90 Seconds video blog series from host Laura Kahn. The series covers some of the most prominent questions in Data Science such as Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, K-Means Clustering, Naive Bayes, Decision Trees and Random Forests, Ridge Regression, […]
What Makes a Data Analyst?
Click to learn more about author Mathias Golombek. Today’s businesses rely heavily on customer, product, process, input and market data. They increasingly need talented, skilled people who can extract information and insights from the data. But what skills are employers looking for? In data analytics, there are some skills and qualities employers look for in all applicants. While education […]
Machine Learning is Changing the Way Retailers Do Business
Click to learn more about author Chirag Mudsa. New technologies are continuing to make retail stores smarter. Among the latest range of smart and futuristic technologies for retail stores, artificial intelligence and machine learning have the most paradigm-shifting capabilities. While the underlying fear of job loss thanks to these technologies is still there, no one […]
Data Science in Life
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. Early last Spring, I was texted by a neighbor friend who asked if I’d be willing to chat with her regarding the pending college choice of her daughter. A top student at our suburban Chicago high school, the young woman had plans to become a physician, and […]
Communications Networks: An Untapped Pool of Data to Optimize Business Performance
Click to learn more about author Rob Chen. We are operating in a data-driven world where leveraging the insights from a growing pool of data sources is driving improvements in business processes, costs and customer experiences. For many organizations, however, there is still a hidden, untapped stream of valuable business data from communication networks and […]
The Power of Analytics in the Data Economy
Click to learn more about author Josh Bartels. Economics studies a market’s supply and demand curves, trying to understand the changes to each curve and its overall effect on the market. If we borrow from that concept, we are constantly moving to a new economy with an ever-growing supply of data being created each day. […]
The Rise of the Enterprise Cloud Manager
Click to learn more about author Jay Chapel. There’s a growing job function among companies using public cloud: the Enterprise Cloud Manager. We recently did a study on users which showed that a growing proportion them have “cloud” or the name of their cloud provider such as “AWS” in their job title. This indicates a […]
How to Talk to Your CEO About Data Quality
Click to learn more about video blogger Scott Taylor. The Data Rants video blog series begins with host Scott Taylor “The Data Whisperer.” The series covers some of the most prominent questions in Data Management such as Master Data, the difference between Master Data and MDM, “truth” versus “meaning” in data, Data Quality, and so […]
Bridging the Gap between Prescriptive Analytics and Trust
Click to learn more about author Omri Kohl. Prescriptive analytics has the potential to amplify the decision-making ability of data-driven organizations by examining what has happened and using that information to recommend – or even implement – next steps. But this power is dependent on just how much users can trust the data being mined, […]
What is SSDP and Can it Truly Make Analytics Self-Serve?
Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. Self-serve data preparation (SSDP) is the logical evolution of business intelligence analytical tools. With self-serve tools, data discovery and analytics tools are accessible to team members and business users across the enterprise. What is SSDP? SSDP is a crucial component of advanced data discovery. With self-serve data prep, data […]