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Panera CIO John Meister on mastering customer experience

CIO Business Intelligence

The first part of leveraging data is really understanding what we want to do with it — what is the KPI or the business metric we want to change? I can finish coding something and test it today, put it in the cafe for a prototype or proof of concept, and then go into the cafe and watch our associates or customers use it.

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Discover 20 Essential Types Of Graphs And Charts And When To Use Them

datapine

To get a clearer impression, here is a visual overview of which chart to select based on what kind of data you need to show: **click to enlarge** Your Chance: Want to test modern data visualization software for free? Your Chance: Want to test modern data visualization software for free?

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Data Science at The New York Times

Domino Data Lab

A “data scientist” might build a multistage processing pipeline in Python, design a hypothesis test, perform a regression analysis over data samples with R, design and implement an algorithm in Hadoop, or communicate the results of our analyses to other members of the organization in a clear and concise fashion.