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Data Strategy: The Missing Link in Your Digital Transformation Plan

Smart Data Collective

All those invoices have reams and reams of valuable data that you can use to create reports, forecasts and direct management decisions. If the software is not used for this purpose and instead was deployed to do one thing only, then valuable data is lost — or at least, not utilized. Why Are We so Focused on Data Strategy?

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5 Crucial Database Practices For Overseeing Sound Big Data Strategies

Smart Data Collective

However, the benefits of big data can only be realized if data sets are properly organized. Database Management Practices for a Sound Big Data Strategy. It is difficult for businesses to not consider the countless benefits of big data. Uber uses big data to develop machine learning algorithms to forecast demand.

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Is your data strategy ready for gen AI? LOB leaders may disagree

CIO Business Intelligence

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI are putting more pressure on analytics and IT leaders to get their houses in order when it comes to data strategy and data management. If you go out and ask a chief data officer, a head of IT, ‘Is your data strategy aligned?’,

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Beyond the hype: Do you really need an LLM for your data?

CIO Business Intelligence

As someone deeply involved in shaping data strategy, governance and analytics for organizations, Im constantly working on everything from defining data vision to building high-performing data teams. My work centers around enabling businesses to leverage data for better decision-making and driving impactful change.

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Steps taken to build Sevita’s first enterprise data platform

CIO Business Intelligence

But because of the infrastructure, employees spent hours on manual data analysis and spreadsheet jockeying. We had plenty of reporting, but very little data insight, and no real semblance of a data strategy. This legacy situation gave us two challenges. How is the new platform helping?

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Analytics Insights and Careers at the Speed of Data

Rocket-Powered Data Science

Focus on specific data types: e.g., time series, video, audio, images, streaming text (such as social media or online chat channels), network logs, supply chain tracking (e.g., RFID), inventory monitoring (SKU / UPC tracking).

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Three lessons from weather forecasting that will improve disease forecasting and outbreak prediction

IBM Big Data Hub

The popularity and wide use of weather forecasts has been largely attributable to the dramatic improvement in forecast accuracy. Such improvements have been quantified in recent research showing that modern 5-day weather forecasts are as accurate as 1-day forecasts in 1980.