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2017: 5 Most Popular Business Analyst Learnings Posts

BA Learnings

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. Dear BAL readers, Welcome to another exciting and promising year! This list is based on the number of page views recorded for each post.

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Influencers assess 2017 and make predictions for 2018

IBM Big Data Hub

As the year winds down, questions tend to arise about what the big trends of the past year have been and what the year to come may hold

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Top 10 IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub podcasts of 2017

IBM Big Data Hub

It can be difficult to keep up with all the best podcast episodes during the year. That's why we've compiled the Top 10 podcasts of the year from the IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub Insights Podcast feed right here

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Top 10 IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub blog posts of 2017

IBM Big Data Hub

Here are our top 10 blog posts of 2017 Readers of the IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub were hungry for knowledge this year. They voraciously read blog posts about incorporating machine learning, choosing the best possible data model, determining how to make the most of data science skills, working with open source frameworks and more.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

report: 2017 State of Embedded Analytics 72%. MONETIZING ANALYTICS FEATURES: Why Data Visualizations. Will Never Be Enough. Go beyond basic embedded dashboards to diferentiate your. application and maximize the value of embedded analytics.

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5 reasons Analytics University is the analytics event of 2017

IBM Big Data Hub

IBM Analytics is coming to Berlin and New Orleans this October. Here are five traits that make the conference unique. Can't make it? Join the Facebook livestream on October 10 or watch the replay to hear the opening session keynotes from Joel Shapiro and Marc Altshuller

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Recapping the IBM Chief Data Officer Strategy Summit Fall 2017

IBM Big Data Hub

See what you missed at the IBM Chief Data Officer Strategy Summit Fall 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts with a collection that includes a full social recap, videos, quotes and more

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Business Analysts & The Anchor Effect

BA Learnings

I’ve always been intrigued by the concept of cognitive bias for the simple reason that it exposes the flaws in one’s thinking and ability to make sound decisions. Every analyst, and in fact everyone, stands to benefit from understanding what cognitive biases are so they can be kept to a minimum or spotted when interacting with others.

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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. Though a Skype call could have helped, I didn’t want to go in blind.

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The Business Analyst's Guide To Encouraging Critical Thinking

BA Learnings

If you’re a manager in charge of a business analyst team or are a part of any team in charge of achieving key business objectives, this article discusses useful insights on how you can trigger and sustain critical thinking in the team. Imagine you’re in a meeting. You present a business analysis plan and ask your team members to share their thoughts. Now, imagine two situations. In the first one, everyone says “that’s great, boss!” They nod and approve of everything you say.

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A List of Business Process Management Certifications

BA Learnings

While there’s nothing like having some experience under your belt, Business Process Management (BPM) certifications can aid analysts in some key ways: they serve as concrete evidence of business process management knowledge; offer the opportunity to learn new concepts /best practices; and benefit from the experience of trainers/mentors. While some of these certifications are offered by professional organizations, others have been put together by software vendors.

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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.

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Business Architecture: What's In It For Business Analysts?

BA Learnings

How can BAs ensure requirements are practical and in line with the strategy/capabilities of the business? The business architecture offers a starting point. Study after study shows that when CEOs discuss strategy, most employees don’t get it. When plans and the overarching vision don’t translate into actionable objectives, business performance deteriorates.

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What BAs Should Know About Feedback Analysis

BA Learnings

Most people think they know what they’re good at. They are usually wrong. More often, people know what they’re not good at — and even then more people are wrong than right — Peter F. Drucker Peter Drucker emphasized the need for professionals to know themselves in order to manage themselves through feedback analysis. To perform effectively, people need to know and understand themselves.

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Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You

Occam's Razor

A rare post today. It looks a little further out into the future than I normally tend to. It attempts to simplify a topic that has more than it’s share of coolness, confusion and complexity. While the phrase Artificial Intelligence has been around since the first human wondered if she could go further if she had access to entities with inorganic intelligence, it truly jumped the shark in 2016.

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Keynote Presentation from January 19, 2017

DSI Analytics

The post Keynote Presentation from January 19, 2017 appeared first on DSI Analytics. The video from my recent keynote on the analytic aspect of Conversion Rate Optimization is now available online. This particular keynote was geared towards a primarily non-technical audience. Videos

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Digital Analytics + Marketing Career Advice: Your Now, Next, Long Plan

Occam's Razor

The Future of Life Institute hosted a conference in Asilomar in Jan 2017 with just such a purpose. The entire list of videos is well worth watching, prioritize the individual ones: Beneficial AI 2017. This is not the future, it is Nov 2017. The rapid pace of innovation and the constantly exploding collection of possibilities is a major contributor to the fun we all have in digital jobs.

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The Artificial Intelligence Opportunity: A Camel to Cars Moment

Occam's Razor

Over the last couple years, I’ve spent an increasing amount of time diving into the possibilities Deep Learning (DL) offers in terms of what we can do with Artificial Intelligence (AI). Some of these possibilities have already been realized (more on this later in the post). And, I could not be more excited to see them out in the world. Through it all, I’ve felt there are a handful of breath-taking realities that most people are not grasping when it comes to an AI-Powered world.

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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!

Occam's Razor

You take advantage of them by living in 2017! The very best analysts distill, rather than dilute. The very best analysts focus, when most will tend to gather. The very best analysts are display critical thinking, rather than giving into what’s asked. The very best analysts are comfortable operating with ambiguity and incompleteness, while all others chase perfection in implementation / processing / reports.

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It's Not The Ink, It's The Think: 6 Effective Data Visualization Strategies

Occam's Razor

Ten years, and the 944,357 words, are proof that I love purposeful data, collecting it, pouring smart strategies into analyzing it, and using the insights identified to transform organizations. In the quest for that last important bit, I am insanely obsessive about 1. simplification and 2. pressing the right emotional buttons.

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

IBM Big Data Hub

2017 has been a good year for VRChat. 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. Fireworks included. Image courtesy VRChat.

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DataCamp Awarded ISO 27001:2017 Certification

DataCamp

We are pleased to announce that DataCamp is now a Brand Compliance (BC) certified company for Information Security Management System (ISMS) ISO 27001:2017

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Recapping the Data Governance Winter Conference and looking ahead to 2018 governance trends

IBM Big Data Hub

The 2017 Data Governance Winter Conference on 4 - 8 December covered topics ranging from how to start a data governance program to attaining data governance maturity to how to improve your organization’s information quality. After attending, Brian Mayer, business ready data practitioner, and Mark Lynch unified governance practice lead, discuss major data governance trends covered at the conference

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Is 2017 The Breakthrough Year For Flying Cars?

Bruno Aziza

Logitech's Scott Wharton predicts that flying cars – also known as personal hybrid ground-to-air vehicles – will soon move from sci-fi dreams to reality

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Strata Data Singapore 2017: Big Data, Safe Data, Cloud Data

Cloudera

If you’re going to Strata Data Singapore 2017 at the Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre , here are four sessions to attend that cover various combinations of my favorite themes: big data, safe data, and cloud data. 9:00am–12:30pm Tuesday, December 5, 2017. 5:05pm–5:45pm Wednesday, December 6, 2017. 5:05pm–5:45pm Wednesday, December 6, 2017. 2:35pm–3:15pm Thursday, December 7, 2017.

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5 tips for machine learning success outside of Silicon Valley

IBM Big Data Hub

Machine learning concerns in Silicon Valley tend to be different from those elsewhere in the U.S. — and outside of the U.S. So, here are five tips for those hearing about machine learning efforts in Silicon Valley, but who work elsewhere. These suggestions consider where machine learning and data science are headed on a large scale — as opposed to the fascinating (but often narrow) research happening in Silicon Valley

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Notes on artificial intelligence, December 2017

DMBS2

Most of my comments about artificial intelligence in December, 2015 still hold true. But there are a few points I’d like to add, reiterate or amplify. As I wrote back then in a post about the connection between machine learning and the rest of AI , It is my opinion that most things called “intelligence” — natural and artificial alike — have a great deal to do with pattern recognition and response. Accordingly, it can be reasonable to equate machine learning and AI.

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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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What’s the Worst Thing You’ve Heard About Being a Woman in Recruitment?

IBM Big Data Hub

Sexism in the workplace continues to be relevant, as much as we all don’t want it to be. And sexism isn’t one sided either, there are stigmas that follow females and males around that continue to be all too commonplace. So we ask our diverse panel of female recruiters to point out the most annoying thing they. View Article. What’s the Worst Thing You’ve Heard About Being a Woman in Recruitment? Undercover Recruiter - Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog.

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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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5 blog posts to keep your data on track in 2018

IBM Big Data Hub

There are many right ways companies are using data: to know their customers better and to keep up with their needs and expectations to drive loyalty without sacrificing privacy. Here are some recommended reads that will help you learn how to stay on your customers’ good side while still gaining the insights you need to stay competitive

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Is “embodied cognition” the future of AI?

IBM Big Data Hub

As happens so often, IBM is quietly laying the groundwork for the future. A recent step toward that future is TJBot, an unassuming, do-it-yourself cardboard robot that opens a window into what AI researchers are calling “embodied cognition

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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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Data Science for All: What is it? Why care? How do I get it?

IBM Big Data Hub

Organizations everywhere, from massive governments to the smallest start-ups, are in a race for the best-possible data expertise and tools. To help your team understand the data science journey, IBM created the Data Science for All webcast

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Begin your cognitive enterprise journey at DataWorks Summit Sydney

IBM Big Data Hub

The power of machine learning, data science and big data is no longer considered a hype or fad. It’s a reality and it’s impacting the bottom lines of businesses

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Can data governance create user satisfaction?

IBM Big Data Hub

Companies have a choice when it comes to their strategy for data governance. Aberdeen research shows that it can be onerous and bureaucratic, or it can be liberating and empowering

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Protect your customer data with relevant test data

IBM Big Data Hub

At a time when data breaches and personalized, sensitive data leaks are receiving great focus, individuals and governments alike are pushing hard on the business community to do more to protect citizens' rights and the sensitive customer data these companies maintain

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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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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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Oversight, insight and execution: Is your data governance strategy working?

IBM Big Data Hub

Allocating IT budget is a tricky business. Companies need to make choices and manage investment tradeoffs. However, recent Aberdeen research suggests that foundational activities to protect, oversee and manage the data environment through a unified approach to data governance can produce enticing results

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3 Major Trends at Strata New York 2017

DataRobot Blog

The post 3 Major Trends at Strata New York 2017 appeared first on DataRobot AI Cloud

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The mainframe isn't going anywhere soon — except maybe to Mars

IBM Big Data Hub

Long before humans go to the moon or Mars, we'll need to send unmanned missions to establish the early infrastructure. Don Haderle, a scholar of the mainframe, recently suggested that mainframe computer systems will become the obvious solution for the moon, Mars, and beyond. Learn why

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Big Data at NASA

IBM Big Data Hub

Data already is the new currency and is at the heart of everything digital. I like to repeat the adage, “Data becomes Information, becomes Knowledge, becomes Wisdom”. And “It’s all about the data”. So why do we send up probes, sensors or satellites — for the data

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