Sat.Dec 30, 2017 - Fri.Jan 05, 2018

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Eliciting Requirements From Dispersed Stakeholders

BA Learnings

If you are meeting or contacting stakeholders for the first time and trying to understand their world, you need structure. By structure, I mean a framework of questions to channel the direction of the conversation or requirements elicitation. I was invited to prepare a business process documentation for a client who was based in another country. Traveling to meet the client was not an option.

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Virtually Celebrate New Year’s Eve in Every Timezone with the ‘VRChat’ Community

IBM Big Data Hub

Ever wished you could jet set around the world fast enough to ring in the New Year at a party in every timezone? Well that might not be quite possible, but VRChat is offering something close. VRChat , a social VR experience supporting major PC VR headsets via Steam , is celebrating New Year’s Eve virtually in every timezone, every hour, on the hour.

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Data Quality and Chicken Little Syndrome

Jim Harris

“The sky is falling!” exclaimed Chicken Little after an acorn fell on his head, causing him to undertake a journey to tell the King that the world is coming to an end. So says the folk tale that became an allegory for people accused of being unreasonably afraid, or people trying to incite an unreasonable fear in those around them, sometimes referred to as Chicken Little Syndrome.

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Bloomberg's Data Initiative: Big Data For Social Good In 2018

Bruno Aziza

Whether it is data-driven marketing, sports analytics, political campaigns, or national security threats, data has become central to any type of informed analysis and plan of action.

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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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2017: 5 Most Popular Business Analyst Learnings Posts

BA Learnings

Dear BAL readers, Welcome to another exciting and promising year! 2017 flew by so fast but not without leaving its mark and some interesting ideas for us to remember as business analysts. Here is a list of the most popular 2017 posts, as determined by BAL readers. This list is based on the number of page views recorded for each post. Here it goes: VRIN Framework/VRIO Analysis A List Of Free Business Intelligence (BI) Training Courses For Business Analysts A List Of Free Business Analysis Trainin

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Get a jump start on real-time analytics and insights

IBM Big Data Hub

Unlock the trusted information about your customers with MDM and empower your business analysts to search, explore and match with other data collections with governed freedom.

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The Unholy Trinity: Ad Fraud, Hate Speech And Fake News

Bruno Aziza

There’s so much risky and objectionable content on the internet—fake news, hate speech, incendiary articles and representations of violence.

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Confirmation Bias: What BAs Can Learn From Data Scientists

BA Learnings

When we have a strong belief about something or a bias towards a particular opinion, we consciously or unconsciously seek out evidence that validates what we already believe. When we come across contrary evidence, our default behaviour is to ignore it, diminish it or in some cases, conclude that it’s wrong prematurely without exploring its merits. This behaviour is due to a cognitive bias known as confirmation bias.

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Data governance is not a sailor’s yarn

IBM Big Data Hub

Whether you want to build a bridge, explore the sea, or simply try to identify new markets, you will only be as good as the data you use. This means it must be complete, in context, trusted and easily accessible to drive insights.

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Capitalising on the Next-Generation Cloud

Nutanix

For success in the channel, flexibility and a willingness to evolve with technological advancements in critical. If we look back just over a year, savvy channel partners were exploiting new paths to revenue by building service practices above the hypervisor.

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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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Self-Serve Data Preparation Doesn’t Mean Traditional ETL is Dead!

Smarten

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) refers to a process of connecting to data sources, integrating data from various data sources, improving data quality, aggregating it and then storing it in staging data source or data marts or data warehouses for consumption of various business applications including BI, Analytics and Reporting. It offers high quality data, which otherwise resides in poorly structured heterogeneous, complicated data sources.

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How Business Analysts Can Avoid Confirmation Bias

BA Learnings

When we have a strong belief about something or a bias towards a particular opinion, we consciously or unconsciously seek out evidence that validates what we already believe. When we come across contrary evidence, our default behaviour is to ignore it, diminish it or in some cases, conclude that it’s wrong prematurely without exploring its merits. This behaviour is due to a cognitive bias known as confirmation bias.