September, 2017

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A Business Analyst's Guide To Managing Change Requests

BA Learnings

It’s common knowledge that people tend to resist change as much as they can. However, without change, there can’t be progress and BAs would certainly not have that much to do. When working on large projects, change requests from stakeholders are to be expected. Successful project managers and analysts know how to manage them without bringing the project to a standstill.

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Learning Machine Learning? Six articles you don’t want to miss

IBM Big Data Hub

Digital disruption has revolutionized the way we live and do business — and machine learning is the latest wave of that revolution.

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Spark vs. Hadoop MapReduce: Which big data framework to choose

ScienceSoft

Hadoop MapReduce or Apache Spark? We explore two leading big data frameworks to understand the business needs each of them can satisfy.

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Should I Eat This Fish - A Redesign

Darkhorse

A few years ago we worked with the Alberta Government on a tool that would make Fish Consumption Advisories more accessible to the general public. And after working its way through the government’s approvals process that tool is finally here. One of the problems with eating fish, besides the smell it can leave in the office microwave, is that mercury accumulates in their bodies over time, and we humans don’t mix well with mercury.

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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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Spotfire Tips & Tricks: Hierarchical Cluster Analysis

TIBCO

Hierarchical cluster analysis or HCA is a widely used method of data analysis, which seeks to identify clusters often without prior information about data structure or number of clusters. Strategies for hierarchical clustering generally fall into two types: Agglomerative and divisive. Agglomerative is a bottom up approach where each observation starts in its own cluster, and pairs of clusters are merged as one moves up the hierarchy.

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Smart Data Visualization Walks You Through to Success

Smarten

Take the Guesswork Out of Analytics with Smart Data Visualization! Smart data visualization takes the guesswork out of data analysis. Why ask your business users to use cumbersome, difficult tools to analyze data or expect them to wait for professional analysts or IT staff to satisfy their analytical needs. They have a job to do and you hold them accountable for results but if they don’t have the right data visualization tools, they can’t get the most out of data.

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When faster data science moves the world

IBM Big Data Hub

Learn how the IBM Integrated Analytics System, a unified data platform built on the IBM Common SQL Engine, helps do data science faster with high performance, embedded machine learning capabilities and built-in tools for data scientists to deliver analytics critical to increasing your organization’s competitiveness.

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STCU Visualizes Data to Improve Member Services

Information Builders

STCU Visualizes Data to Improve Member Services. Regional Credit Union Gains an Analytics Advantage With WebFOCUS. Taking analytics to the next level was important for the Spokane Teachers Credit Union (STCU). These needs became a priority once STCU learned that Pitney Bowes was sunsetting its Sagent business intelligence (BI) product, which STCU had depended on for 14 years.

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Customer big data analytics: an overview

ScienceSoft

Is your business among those taking the most from customer analytics? Read our new business intelligence blog post to check.

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Data Visualization Best Practices

Paris Technologies

We’re living a data-generating reality in a digital world. The amount of data just keeps expanding; its potential to teach us growing along with it. Data wants to tell us its story. What is Data Visualization and Why is it Important? When we talk about data visualization, we are talking about a kind of translator […].

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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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Self-Service Data Prep: A Tool for Business Users

Smarten

Self-Serve Data Preparation Makes Business Users More Productive and Efficient! There is too much to do in a day to wait for someone else to give you the data you need. But, when it comes to data preparation and data analytics, business users are usually not comfortable with complex solutions that are time consuming or that require professional analytical skills.

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Why CEOs should hang tech-washing out to dry

Mark Raskino

During his address to the American nation on April 30th 1973, President Richard Nixon provided his now famous line “there can be no Whitewash at the White House” The analogy of using white paint to cover up a mess was not new, but ever since – journalists and copywriters have been in love with it. In the marketing of technology a derivative use has become common.

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How to succeed in the multi-cloud era

IBM Big Data Hub

In a time when data is perhaps a business’s most valuable resource, the ability to access, protect and analyze information plays a critical role in an organization’s overall multi-cloud strategy. Here's how to succeed.

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The Internet of Things Uncovers the Value of Big Data

Information Builders

Image source: pixabay. Analytic Applications Focused on Connected Machines, Sensors, and Personal Devices Can Operationalize Insights and Monetize Data read more.

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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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Five Tips To Improve Your Corporate Security Program

Bruno Aziza

Cyber threats are now a part of day-to-day business that organizations must face and address. More companies are looking to build robust IT organizations with enhanced capabilities to combat the ever-evolving cyber threats.

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Investing in Information

Paris Technologies

“Information is only useful when it can be understood” – Muriel Cooper Just about everything in life benefits from having the right information at the right time. In a business context, organizations that leverage information quickly are more agile, allowing them to respond faster to market trends, giving them an upper hand over their competitors. […].

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Predictive Analysis Tools are Not Just for Analysts

Smarten

Plug n’ Play Predictive Analytics Solutions for Every Business User! Predictive analysis is very important to your organization. If you can dependably predict and forecast results, you can stay ahead of the competition, address changing customer needs, capitalize on opportunities and solve problems before they negatively impact your enterprise.

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State of Bandcamp Recommender, Late 2017

Data Science and Beyond

Call for BCRecommender maintainers followed by a decision to shut it down, as I don’t have enough time and Bandcamp now offers recommendations.

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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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Transforming a city with data and insight

IBM Big Data Hub

For the first time in human experience, there’s the opportunity to transform a city by listening to all of its inhabitants, individually. That’s the mission of the Jakarta Smart City (JSC) project, and it’s a major challenge in a district of some 10 million residents.

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Empire Airlines Takes Off With Turnkey Business Intelligence Appliance

Information Builders

Empire Airlines Takes Off With Turnkey BI Appliance. Scale Computing's Analytics Appliance Combines WebFOCUS BUE Software With HC3 Virtualization Platform. As Empire Airlines grew and its operation became more complex, senior managers saw the need to acquire a software platform for business intelligence (BI), analytics, and reporting. Simply put, however, Empire Airlines wanted more than BI.

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Why Should Americans Care About Foreign Privacy?

Bruno Aziza

Protecting the privacy of foreign users of American internet services is not just good for business, it is good for everyone’s privacy – including Americans.

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CEOs Must End Digital Business Planning Paralysis

Mark Raskino

Something I’ve noticed in a few interactions this year, has been too much planning for digital business innovation. We meet with some technology and business executives who have been strategizing and planning how to set up a digital business innovation center or capability for months and months. sometimes a year, or even two years. endless tunnel CC 2.0 kimdokhac via Flickr.

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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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Plug n’ Play! Analytics that Leads Business Users to Success

Smarten

Plug n’ Play Predictive Analysis: Sophisticated, Yet Easy for Every User! Oh, the confusion of advanced analytical terminology. Read a report, attend a conference and your head is swirling with terms like ‘assisted predictive modeling’, plug n’ play predictive analysis, smart visualization, augmented data discovery and augmented data preparation.

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State of Bandcamp Recommender, Late 2017

Data Science and Beyond

November 2017: Update and goodbye I’ve decided to shut down Bandcamp Recommender (BCRecommender), despite hearing back from a few volunteers. The main reasons are: Bandcamp now shows album recommendations at the bottom of album pages. While this isn’t quite the same as BCRecommender, I hope that it will evolve to a more comprehensive recommender system.

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Accelerating time-to-market with fabricated test data

IBM Big Data Hub

Protecting personal and sensitive data is vital. But, understanding the regulatory environment and available tools is just the first step. There are still challenges when building and managing test data environments. Here's how to overcome them.

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Axicom Boosts Engineering Productivity With Self-Service Analytics

Information Builders

Axicom Boosts Engineering Productivity With Self-Service Analytics. Integration and Intelligence Technologies Accelerate Journey to the Cloud. Axicom, Australia’s leading provider of independently owned wireless infrastructure, chose technologies from Information Builders to generate real-time data and in-depth analytics that delivered immediate cost savings throughout the company.

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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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A 'Gathering Of Data Scientists' Extends Its Influence

Bruno Aziza

As the market and ecosystem have matured, there is more coverage of actual use – what are people doing with the data? What does that mean for individuals, companies, governments, and society as a whole?

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The story of every distribution - Discrete Distributions

MLWhiz

Distributions play an important role in the life of every Statistician. I coming from a non-statistic background am not so well versed in these and keep forgetting about the properties of these famous distributions. That is why I chose to write my own understanding in an intuitive way to keep a track. One of the most helpful way to learn more about these is the STAT110 course by Joe Blitzstein and his book.

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Data Discovery Tools Help Your Discover Success

Smarten

Advanced Data Discovery to Advance Your Business! Advanced Data Discovery is only possible with the right data discovery tools. If you want to encourage smart data discovery, you don’t need smarter users – you need smarter tools. Advanced Analytics Tools should be simple enough for every business user to perform advanced data discovery using auto-suggested relationships and revealing the impact of decisions and changes within the organization.

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Will The Real HCI Market Leader Please Stand Up?

Nutanix

IDC recently published its latest market share statistics for “Converged Infrastructure,” which includes the rapidly-growing hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market as a distinct category.

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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!