There’s plenty of research on employee productivity, which is key to building a profitable and successful business. Engaged employees are likely to put their heart into their jobs – not just go through the motions. Here are some findings that put this into perspective: Happy workers are 13 percent more productive, according to research by […]
Getting Advanced with Data Analytics: Three Questions to Find the Right Solution
Click here to learn more about Zdenek Svoboda. Market research from Gartner maintains that, in the digital era, analytics needs to be infused into every role, business process, decision, and action. That’s a very worthy goal, but one that many companies have yet to achieve. In fact, when Deloitte recently surveyed 1,000 executives at large companies, a full 67 percent […]
Tips for Risk Assessment and Management
Click to learn more about author Ashok Sharma. Small businesses are prone to a lot of risks. From financial threats and market competition to unexpected issues like hazardous equipment, medical expenses, legal expenses, and security issues, a small business can be affected by any (or several) of these problems at any time. And as a small […]
Evolution of Machine Learning and How It Will Affect the Future
Click to learn more about author Kateryna Boiko Machine learning (ML) has been more than a buzzword lately. All the top companies have adopted innovative technologies, with Google making artificial intelligence a priority, Uber incorporating machine learning with Uber Eats, and countless research labs opening all over the world. How did machine learning become such a […]
ADV Slides: Organizational Change Management in Becoming an Analytic Organization
ADV Slides: Organizational Change Management in Becoming an Analytic Organization from DATAVERSITY To view just the On Demand recording of this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar The disparity between expecting change and managing it – the “change gap” – is growing at an unprecedented pace. This has put many […]
ADV Webinar: Organizational Change Management in Becoming an Analytic Organization
To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar The disparity between expecting change and managing it – the “change gap” – is growing at an unprecedented pace. This has put many information management shops into traction as they initiate large, complex projects needed to stay […]
AI and Human Operators Combine to Train Robots
Click to learn more about author Samuel Bocetta. Ever since the first crude cinematic robot first arrived on the scene in the 1927 movie Metropolis, humans have been fixated on the fear that they would come to rue the day artificial intelligence (AI) was summoned into existence and that, eventually, the masters would become slaves […]
The Dangers of Data Illiteracy: Coronavirus and Data Distortions
Click to learn more about co-author John Ladley. Click to learn more about co-author Len Silverston. People are unconsciously incompetent at communicating with data. This applies to our personal and professional lives. This ignorance creates an ethical issue that is profoundly important to all business and societal communities. This inability to understand and communicate with […]
The Fundamentals of Deep Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learning (RL), a “niche” Machine Learning technique, has surfaced in the last five years. In context-based decision making, Reinforcement Learning helps the machine take action-provoking decision making through a trial-and-error approach to achieve the optimal algorithmic model for a situation. Furthermore, the machine is trained through a reward/penalty-based feedback mechanism, the goal of which […]
Retail, Analytics, and the Economic Crisis: Three Lessons Learned
Click to learn more about author Julien Gautier. Over the last month, the business world has come to a standstill with organizations across the business landscape scrambling to make sense of how to preserve revenue as the world grapples with the economic downturn associated with COVID-19. This is particularly true in one industry: retail. The […]