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A history of tech adaptation for today’s changing business needs

CIO Business Intelligence

The first was becoming one of the first research companies to move its panels and surveys online, reducing costs and increasing the speed and scope of data collection. Its digital transformation process can be divided into several stages, according to Mohammed, each with its own objectives and challenges.

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Why Easier Governance Is Superior Governance

Alation

David Menninger, Research Director at Ventana Research, argues that traditional, restrictive governance costs organizations time, money, and valuable insights. Data is valuable for the insights concealed within. And with data collection and replication growing so quickly, governance is more important than ever.

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Unintentional data

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Implicitly, there was a prior belief about some interesting causal mechanism or an underlying hypothesis motivating the collection of the data. As computing and storage have made data collection cheaper and easier, we now gather data without this underlying motivation. Consider your loss function.