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Why Data Driven Decision Making is Your Path To Business Success

datapine

We read about it everywhere. The term ‘big data’ alone has become something of a buzzword in recent times – and for good reason. By leveraging the wealth of digital insights available at your fingertips and embracing the power of business intelligence , it’s possible to make more informed decisions that will lead to commercial growth, evolution, and an increased bottom line.

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5 Innovative Ways Big Data Is Shaping Cities Of The Future

Smart Data Collective

According to a UN study, 55% of the total world population is living in cities and by the year 2050, this figure could rise to a whopping 68%. The modern world is increasingly urbanized and megacities are rising faster than ever before, especially in Asian and African countries. The report highlighted that , at the present rate of development, there will be 43 megacities by 2030 and New Delhi is set to surpass Tokyo, which is currently the world’s largest city.

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8 Useful R Packages for Data Science You Aren’t Using (But Should!)

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction I’m a big fan of R – it’s no secret. I have relied on it since my days of learning statistics back in. The post 8 Useful R Packages for Data Science You Aren’t Using (But Should!) appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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Microsoft Races to Catch Up in Analytics and BI Market

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

I am happy to offer some insights on Microsoft drawn from our latest Value Index research, which provides an analytic representation of our assessment of how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements. The Ventana Research Value Index: Analytics and Business Intelligence 2019 is the distillation of a year of market and product research efforts by Ventana Research.

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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have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth.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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3 Awesome Visualization Techniques for every dataset

MLWhiz

Visualizations are awesome. However, a good visualization is annoyingly hard to make. Moreover, it takes time and effort when it comes to present these visualizations to a bigger audience. We all know how to make Bar-Plots, Scatter Plots, and Histograms, yet we don’t pay much attention to beautify them. This hurts us?-?our credibility with peers and managers.

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Innovative Brands Use Big Data to Improve Sticker Branding

Smart Data Collective

We have noticed a trend in big data journalism. Topics that receive the most attention aren’t necessarily those that deserve it the most. This is especially applicable when it comes to articles covering the intersection between big data and marketing. There is a strong case to be made that big data is having a tremendous impact on sticker marketing and other forms of offline branding.

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Qlik Sticks to Interactive Analytics and Discovery

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

I am happy to offer some insights on Qlik drawn from our latest Value Index research, which provides an analytic representation of our assessment of how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements. The Ventana Research Value Index: Analytics and Business Intelligence 2019 is the distillation of a year of market and product research efforts by Ventana Research.

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Announcing the General Availability of Cloudera Flow Management and Cloudera Edge Management

Cloudera

Last month at Strata, San Francisco, we made an announcement about two upcoming products – Cloudera Flow Management and Cloudera Edge Management. Today, we are super excited to announce that both the products are generally available for use. While Cloudera Flow Management has been eagerly awaited by our Cloudera customers for use on their existing Cloudera platform clusters, Cloudera Edge Management has generated equal buzz across the industry for the possibilities that it brings to enterp

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Machine Learning in Production: Software Architecture

Domino Data Lab

Special thanks to Addison-Wesley Professional for permission to excerpt the following “Software Architecture” chapter from the book, Machine in Production. This chapter excerpt provides data scientists with insights and tradeoffs to consider when moving machine learning models to production. Also, if you’re interested in learning about how Domino provides an API endpoint for your model, check out this video tutorial on the Domino Support site.

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Build your First Multi-Label Image Classification Model in Python

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Are you working with image data? There are so many things we can do using computer vision algorithms: Object detection Image segmentation Image. The post Build your First Multi-Label Image Classification Model in Python appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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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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How U.S. Bank Uses A.I. and Machine Learning to Deeply Personalize Your Banking Experience

Teradata

Katherine Knowles-Marchione explains how US. Bank is using AI to improve and personalize the banking experience.

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All in the Data: CDOs Should Be Asking “How” … and Not “Why”

TDAN

The secret lies with Data Governance. The Chief Data Officer (or whoever the Data Czar is at your organization) needs to get past, and I mean way past, the “Why is Data Governance important?” or “Why do we need Data Governance?” questions if they are ever going to be successful czar-ing the data. Rather, the […].

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Interview with CDO Club Founder, David Mathison

Dataiku

Chief Data Officers (CDOs) are taking the data world by storm, but their role is relatively new, and subsequently, there's not much established wisdom on how to be effective in this role.

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Here’s How VPNs Can Protect Against Big Data Leaks

Smart Data Collective

Virtual private networks (VPNs), can help you unblock content and VPNS can protect you from hackers and shady third-parties. VPNs offer privacy online and can stop governments, schools, and employers from tracking the sites you visit. But, how do VPNs protect against data leaks ? And, importantly, how do you know your VPN is leak-free? How a VPN Provides Security.

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8 Steps to Transformation at Speed & Scale – Your Guide to Deploying StratOps

📌Is your Data & AI transformation struggling to really impact the business? Discover the game-changing StratOps approach that: Bridges the Gap : Connect your Data & AI strategy to your operating model, to ensure alignment at every level. Prioritizes Outcomes : Focuses on concrete business outcomes from day one, rather than capabilities in isolation.

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How small and mid-sized businesses can perform big data analytics

IBM Big Data Hub

Big data doesn’t need to be a daunting challenge for small or midsized business (SMBs). Accessing, storing and exploring big data can be done by businesses of any size. An influx of data from sensors, streaming audio and video log files, web, and social media are increasing the volume, velocity, and variety of data. But that means there are new opportunities for well-prepared SMBs to uncover insights and unlock value.

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A Guide to CCPA Compliance and How the California Consumer Privacy Act Compares to GDPR

erwin

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) compliance shares many of the same requirements in the European Unions’ General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). While the CCPA has been signed into law, organizations have until Jan. 1, 2020, to enact its mandates. Luckily, many organizations have already laid the regulatory groundwork for it because of their efforts to comply with GDPR.

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How to Determine the Value of Your Data Initiatives

Dataiku

Calculating the Return on Investment (ROI) on a business project is a necessary evil. On the one hand, you need ROI to determine the most impactful ways of spending your human and financial capital. Yet on the other, these calculations are notoriously challenging to figure out, as there are so many factors that come to bear. Data Initiatives are especially difficult to evaluate, as their success rests on the organizational buy in that results from stakeholders believing in their value.

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Responses to Negative Data: Four Senior Leadership Archetypes.

Occam's Razor

Not everything a company does works out. (That is different from everything that a company is doing not working out. :)). If you are in the data business – my bread, butter and tofu – you often carry the burden of being the bearer of bad news. The conversion rate is down 30% at launch. The goal was to deliver a 30% increase in revenue, the team delivered 1.7953%.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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How workforce planning analytics builds stronger businesses

IBM Big Data Hub

Sophisticated planning analytics can help HR pros act on data-driven insights and inmprove ROI. Learn how.

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Building Stronger Teams with HR Analytics

Sisense

Human Resources Teams are charged with helping their companies build the strongest teams they can. This requires a complex web of skills to help find the best candidates, court them, onboard them, and keep them happy. Helping employees grow and have fulfilling careers has always been an important HR function, but in today’s tight employment market, this is especially true.

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The Impact Of AI On Cybersecurity: Are Humans Still Your Best Asset?

Smart Data Collective

In January, Masergy predicted that 2019 will be “The Year of Artificial Intelligence.” There’s no question that the term is popping up everywhere as enterprises yearn to turn big data into a competitive edge. The same goes for cybersecurity. Everyone wants to leverage machine learning, behavior analytics, and AI so IT teams can “up the ante” against attackers.

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BusinessObjects and PowerBI May Lead to Hair Loss

Paul Blogs on BI

There has been a lot of talk and hype about PowerBI in the last couple of years. Some of that has been fueled by the infamous Gartner BI Magic Quadrants which, once again, seem to be out of touch with the reality on the ground. With more than 40% of BusinessObjects customers in the US co-existing with Tableau, we are now seeing an increase in BO customers moving towards PowerBI.

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The Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report

Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) are changing how software teams work by moving development to the cloud. Our Cloud Development Environment Adoption Report gathers insights from 223 developers and business leaders, uncovering key trends in CDE adoption. With 66% of large organizations already using CDEs, these platforms are quickly becoming essential to modern development practices.

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Responsible Gaming in the Age of Machine Learning

BizAcuity

Let’s face it, casino gaming is a huge business. It brings more than $500 billion in revenues every year from all around the world and the rise of the internet has fuelled its growth further. Today, online casino games has reached several people across all age groups through popular fantasy games. The case of responsible gaming. But with its growth comes another issue: the need to draw the line before excessive casino gaming becomes a problem, or as we like to call it, ‘irresponsible

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OEM Architecture: What’s Right For Your Business?

Sisense

There’s no denying it: the OEM analytics market is huge. A trend now recognized by Gartner in their 2018 Critical Capabilities for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms report, more and more organizations see the value in providing their customers with analytics. But what’s the best way to architect your OEM offering? This is where the fun begins.

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Can AI Remove The Risk From EHRs?

Smart Data Collective

When the Obama administration authorized the law that would fund the expansion of electronic health records (EHRs), the idea was that this would transform American healthcare. Records would become readily portable and individuals and their doctors would have easy access to this information when it’s needed most. Instead, a decade later, the US government has poured over $36 billion into EHR development and adoption and our healthcare system is as fragmented as ever.

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Chatbots aren't as difficult to make as You Think

MLWhiz

Chatbots are the in thing now. Every website must implement it. Every Data Scientist must know about them. Anytime we talk about AI; Chatbots must be discussed. But they look intimidating to someone very new to the field. We struggle with a lot of questions before we even begin to start working on them. Are they hard to create? What technologies should I know before attempting to work on them?

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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The Future of Affiliate Marketing in the Age of Analytics & Machine Learning

BizAcuity

Marketing as we know has come a long way. What started off through simple ‘word-of-mouth’ is now becoming smarter, efficient and more personalised with the advent of technology. Of late internet has opened up several avenues to reach out to a wide range of audience. And the most recent developments in machine learning, business analytics and more have made affiliate marketing more powerful and efficient than ever before.

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Building Long-Term Business Relationships Through BI

Sisense

The best business relationships have a certain synergy, and that synergy is especially important for sustaining long-term business relationships that stand the test of time. A long-term business relationship should feel secure but expansive, with room to grow into new opportunities and address changing needs. It’s therefore critical that business solutions providers and consultants never miss an opportunity to expand their services into an area that complements their current offerings and suppor

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Small Devices Will Play a Huge Role in the Future IoT

Smart Data Collective

. The Internet of Things (IOT) is growing at an unprecedented pace. By the end of next year, utility companies are expected to spend around $120 billion on IOT technologies. McKinsey estimates that spending on ICT-based IOT products alone will exceed $580 billion. This means that the annual growth rate for this market will be between 7% and 15%. The changes in the market are clearly impressive.

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Modern enterprise performance management for the agile business

IBM Big Data Hub

Integrated planning unleashes the power of enterprise performance management across your organization to support business and organizational agility. Read why that's critical.

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The Ultimate Guide To Data-Driven Construction: Optimize Projects, Reduce Risks, & Boost Innovation

Speaker: Donna Laquidara-Carr, PhD, LEED AP, Industry Insights Research Director at Dodge Construction Network

In today’s construction market, owners, construction managers, and contractors must navigate increasing challenges, from cost management to project delays. Fortunately, digital tools now offer valuable insights to help mitigate these risks. However, the sheer volume of tools and the complexity of leveraging their data effectively can be daunting. That’s where data-driven construction comes in.