March, 2018

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Closing Data's Last-Mile Gap: Visualizing For Impact!

Occam's Razor

I worry about data’s last-mile gap a lot. As a lover of data-influenced decision making, perhaps you worry as well. A lot of hard work has gone into collecting the requirements and implementation. An additional massive investment was made in the effort to perform ninja like analysis. The end result was a collection trends and insights. The last-mile gap is the distance between your trends and getting an influential company leader to take action.

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The Business Analyst’s Transferrable Skills

BA Learnings

Transferrable skills are a core set of skills and abilities, which can be applied to other jobs and industries. Though most examples you will see are related to soft skills like communication, listening, leadership, etc, transferrable skills extend beyond these and it’s extremely important to identify them when thinking of a career change or advancement.

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AI Unlocks The Business Intelligence In BI

Boris Evelson

In most enterprises, data access is a fait accompli: 72% of global data and analytics decision makers say that they can access the data they need to obtain insights in a timely manner. However, even the most modern BI tools that make data more accessible still require significant subject matter expertise to find the right […].

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Celebrating Db2’s 25 years of awesome

IBM Big Data Hub

March 16, 2018 is the 25th anniversary of the Db2 relational database product on Linux UNIX and Windows. Over the past 25 years, this team has built the Db2 brand for the distributed product, complementing IBM’s Db2 mainframe offering and creating a market force.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Data is the New Frontier for Performance in Formula One

TIBCO

It’s no secret that evolution drives Formula One racing. Each season, teams work to improve safety and energy consumption with the goal of giving fans a great, competitive show with a level playing field. The crux and excitement of F1 racing is for teams to expect the unexpected. Whether it’s weather conditions or a pitfall of an opponent, teams need to be prepared to adapt to changing conditions — even the most minor of changes can have the greatest impact.

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What's in a Juicebox: Connected Visuals

Juice Analytics

The ability of an excel novice (i.e. me) to use a pivot table is basically naught. My ability to manipulate data does not exist, and yet I work for one of the most forward-thinking data presentation companies! Nevermind why I was hired, I quickly learned how to use a Juicebox application because Juicebox is designed with the everyday end user in mind.

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Logarithmic Confusion

Perceptual Edge

We typically think of quantitative scales as linear, with equal quantities from one labeled value to the next. For example, a quantitative scale ranging from 0 to 1000 might be subdivided into equal intervals of 100 each. Linear scales seem natural to us. If we took a car trip of 1000 miles, we might imagine that distance as subdivided into ten 100 mile segments.

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Compliance bias in mobile experiments

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by DANIEL PERCIVAL Randomized experiments are invaluable in making product decisions, including on mobile apps. But what if users don't immediately uptake the new experimental version? What if their uptake rate is not uniform? We'd like to be able to make decisions without having to wait for the long tail of users to experience the treatment to which they have been assigned.

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3 signs your database may be out of date

IBM Big Data Hub

For decades, a company’s database usually had a single job: operating as either an operational — also known as transactional — database or acting as a data warehouse. It was also typically deployed in a single location: on premises. Today, companies not only want more from their databases, but also expect greater flexibility concerning where they are located and how they consume data management resources.

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Strata Data San Jose March 2018 Musings

Sanjeev Mohan

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new buzz word for 2018: Operationalization ! I attended this year’s edition of Strata Data show last week in San Jose. Last year when I attended the show, it was still called Strata Hadoop. Interestingly, if last year many companies were trying to distance themselves from Hadoop, this year I witnessed outright hostility towards it.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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4 Steps to getting started with data products

Juice Analytics

Over the years, we’ve had the pleasure to work with many great individuals and companies and through our work have gained the ability to sympathize with their experiences of what we like to call “going from 0 to 100." No, we’re not endorsing excessive speeding in your car. We’re talking about going from having nothing but hopes and dreams about delivering engaging analytics (0) to having an interactive data story that your users don’t want to put down (100).

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The ‘Scary’ Seven: big data challenges and ways to solve them

ScienceSoft

Big data can drive your company to success, but first you’ll need to deal with 7 major big data challenges. Find out what they are and how to solve them.

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Randomness Is Often Not Random

Perceptual Edge

In statistics, what we often identify as randomness in data is not actually random. Bear in mind, I am not talking about randomly generated numbers or random samples. Instead, I am referring to events about which data has been recorded. We learn of these events when we examine the data. We refer to an event as random when it is not associated with a discernible pattern or cause.

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How American Express Excels As A Data-Driven Culture

Bruno Aziza

For many in the industry, Ash Gupta is seen as being the father of data-driven risk analysis, and his efforts have contributed to the increased usage of data and analytics in financial services

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Think 2018: Our favorite highlights from Wednesday

IBM Big Data Hub

Think 2018 is in full swing. We’re inspired hearing from leaders across industries using analytics to transform their business. And we’re thrilled to take part in conversations about data science, machine learning, AI and much more. Here are some highlights from Wednesday at Think.

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Disrupt and Innovate in a Data-Driven World

Cloudera

If you do an internet search for ‘data-driven disruption’ you can find articles about almost every industry being disrupted by digitalisation and new applications of data. Banking, transportation, healthcare, retail, and real estate, all have seen the emergence of new business models fundamentally changing how customers use their services. While there are instances of data-driven efforts in the nonprofit sector, they are not as widespread as they can be.

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Engineering Data Science at Automattic

Data Science and Beyond

A post I’ve written on applying some software engineering best practices to data science projects. Data for Breakfast. Most data scientists have to write code to analyze data or build products. While coding, data scientists act as software engineers. Adopting best practices from software engineering is key to ensuring the correctness, reproducibility, and maintainability of data science projects.

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IoT and big data: the specifics of productive symbiosis

ScienceSoft

IoT generates volumes of big data which can be applicable to achieve progress in a number of sectors. However, there are specific features in IoT big data collecting, processing and applying which need to be considered in IoT development.

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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Assisted Predictive Modeling and Analytics for Everyone

Smarten

Need Analytics for Business Users AND Data Scientists? No Problem! Does your business intelligence solution provide true advanced analytics capabilities? Can your BI tool satisfy the needs of business users, data scientists and IT staff? That may seem like a tall order but with the right business intelligence software, you can provide predictive analytics for business users, including assisted predictive modeling that walks users through the analytical process and allows them to achieve the best

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Don't Get Blindsided by SSL

Bruno Aziza

Cyber attackers have become adept and hyper-active in using SSL for malevolent purposes. This blog covers the biannual analysis of SSL trends conducted by Zscaler’s Threatlabz, which found that the number of SSL encrypted messages that contained advanced threats continued to rise in 2017.

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Think 2018: Our favorite highlights from Thursday

IBM Big Data Hub

Hard to believe we've arrived at the last day of Think 2018. From keynotes to panels, informal collaborations and learning sessions, we've witnessed first-hand the excitement that conversations about data and analytics bring to business.

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Altus SDX: Shared services for cloud-based analytics

Cloudera

The real power in machine learning and analytics is when multiple analytics disciplines are able to work together in concert, sharing data in service of solving more complex and more valuable questions. That’s what Cloudera SDX (Shared Data Experience) enables for our customers and why we’re so excited to introduce it today for Cloudera Altus.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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HIMSS 2018 over so What's.Next!

Nutanix

One of the largest healthcare IT shows, HIMSS 2018 wrapped up in Las Vegas back in the first week of March and as expected over 1300 companies exhibited in the areas such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, clinical workflows, and interoperability.

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Big data: a highway to hell or a stairway to heaven? Exploring big data problems

ScienceSoft

Unlike challenges, big data problems are conceptual and have a much deeper nature. What are they and do they have the power to threaten your business? Find out here.

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Why Do You Need Self-Serve Data Preparation?

Smarten

Self-Serve Data Preparation Takes the Headache Out of Data Analytics! Self-Serve Data Preparation (aka augmented data preparation) is all about efficiency and the presentation of sophisticated data preparation tools in an easy-to-use environment. The idea behind self-service data preparation is to give the average business user the ability to prepare, use, report on and share data without the assistance of IT staff or analysts, thereby making their jobs easier and making every team member more o

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Immersive Insights: Better data through AR

IBM Big Data Hub

Augmented reality (AR) and augmented intelligence systems such as Watson are breaking data outside the confines of a two-dimensional monitor and putting them into a three-dimensional visualization format. Big Data and Analytics Hub spoke with IBM AR designer Ben Resnick about what’s next for Immersive Insights and how data visualization will improve business intelligence for enterprise decision makers.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Today at Think 2018: What you can’t miss Thursday

IBM Big Data Hub

Hard to believe, but we’ve arrived at the final day of Think 2018. It’s been thrilling to be part of the energy flowing through the Cloud & Data Campus. We’ve seen an unprecedented level of engagement around analytics and the future of data-driven decision-making. But we’re not done yet. Here are our top picks for analytics pros today.

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New hyper-fast data ingestion enables smarter decisions

IBM Big Data Hub

Human beings tend to filter out events they deem unimportant. They can only process so much at any given time. Computer systems, however, must be able to handle a massive number of events in real time or near-real time to help support a wide range of applications.

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Think 2018: Our favorite highlights from Tuesday

IBM Big Data Hub

The excitement, insights and innovation at Think 2018 is truly astounding. Today we heard from IBM Chairman, President and CEO, Ginni Rometty, plus industry leaders and clients who are transforming whole business sectors.

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Today at Think 2018: What you can’t miss Monday

IBM Big Data Hub

We’re live at Think 2018. If you’re joining us in Las Vegas, welcome to the biggest IBM event of the year. You’re about to experience a whirlwind of analytics keynotes, panels, demos, and more.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!