Octopai

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Data-driven organizations are a bad idea. Using data to drive your organization is wonderful. But data, at best, can only be a powerful vehicle, or a reliable GPS system. Except sometimes we call organizations “data-driven” when really the data is driving them up the wall. And it should be.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The partners say they will create the future of digital manufacturing by leveraging the industrial internet of things (IIoT), digital twin , data, and AI to bring products to consumers faster and increase customer satisfaction, all while improving productivity and reducing costs. Smart manufacturing at scale is a challenge.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The most pressing responsibilities for CIOs in 2024 will include security, cost containment, and cultivating a data-first mindset.” Adaptability and useability of AI tools For CIOs, 2023 was the year of cautious experimentation for AI tools. Here, we detail those and others that comprise eight of the top priorities for CIOs in 2024.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

GoDaddy is a data-driven company, and getting meaningful insights from data helps us drive business decisions to delight our customers. As a part of this vision, GoDaddy’s Data & ML Platform team plans to use EMR Serverless as one of the compute solutions under the hood.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 28, 2023

These circumstances have induced uncertainty across our entire business value chain,” says Venkat Gopalan, chief digital, data and technology officer, Belcorp. “As The R&D laboratories produced large volumes of unstructured data, which were stored in various formats, making it difficult to access and trace.

Digital Transformation 105

Digital Transformation Cost-Benefit Informatics Data mining 105

O'Reilly on Data

MARCH 31, 2020

AI products are automated systems that collect and learn from data to make user-facing decisions. All you need to know for now is that machine learning uses statistical techniques to give computer systems the ability to “learn” by being trained on existing data. Why AI software development is different.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

For Heineken’s global CIO Ing Yan Ong, the journey to keep a historic beer brand relevant starts with simplifying ERP, adopting agile methodologies and rethinking customer and supplier relationships in an age of digital analytics and personalized communications. There’s also a growing emphasis on improving team performance.

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Ontotext

JULY 6, 2023

In today’s fast changing environment, enterprises that have transitioned from being focused on applications to becoming data-driven gain a significant competitive edge. There are four groups of data that are naturally siloed: Structured data (e.g., Transaction and pricing data (e.g.,

Cost-Benefit 52

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. Sometimes, we escape the clutches of this sub optimal existence and do pick good metrics or engage in simple A/B testing. Online, offline or nonline.

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Ontotext

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Achieving this advantage is dependent on their ability to capture, connect, integrate, and convert data into insight for business decisions and processes. This is the goal of a “data-driven” organization. We call this the “ Bad Data Tax ”. This is partly because integrating and moving data is not the only problem.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Today’s data tool challenges. By enabling their event analysts to monitor and analyze events in real time, as well as directly in their data visualization tool, and also rate and give feedback to the system interactively, they increased their data to insight productivity by a factor of 10. .

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Cloudera

APRIL 9, 2021

This blog series follows the manufacturing and operations data lifecycle stages of an electric car manufacturer – typically experienced in large, data-driven manufacturing companies. The first blog introduced a mock vehicle manufacturing company, The Electric Car Company (ECC) and focused on Data Collection.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

The universe of digital analytics is massive and can seem as complex as the cosmic universe. Even simple questions like “ How effective is our analytics strategy? Soon, your digital analytics strategic framework that you hoped would provide a true north to the analytics strategy question looks like this ….

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DataRobot

JANUARY 13, 2022

Many companies find that they have a treasure trove of data but lack the expertise to use it to improve ROI. AI can help them wrangle the data that’s collected and quickly answer important questions. But they often don’t have enough data scientists with the full range of domain expertise to realize its full value.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2009

It is rare for me to work with a organization where the root cause for their faith based decision making (rather than data driven) was not the org structure. Surprisingly it is often not their will to use data, that is there in many cases. Let me hasten to add that this, web analytics ownership, does not exist in a vacuum.

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Analytics Data-driven Marketing Sales 95

Domino Data Lab

JANUARY 24, 2019

In 2018 we saw the “data science platform” market rapidly crystallize into three distinct product segments. Over the last couple years, it would be hard to blame anyone for being overwhelmed looking at the data science platform market landscape. Proprietary (often GUI-driven) data science platforms. Automation Tools.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

I am absolutely thrilled that my book Web Analytics 2.0 I only had one job, at Intuit, when I wrote my first web analytics book. The Pitch: I invite you to consider buying my second web analytics book. It is not just a business book, though every dna strand in this book is more about online marketing than online analytics.

Analytics 71

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Here you'll find all my blog posts categorized into a structure that will hopefully make it easy for you to discover new content, find answers to your questions, or simply wallow in some excellent analytics narratives. " ~ Digital Analytics: "Am I thinking right? Be data driven?" Be data driven?"

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 17, 2023

Due to the convergence of events in the data analytics and AI landscape, many organizations are at an inflection point. Furthermore, a global effort to create new data privacy laws, and the increased attention on biases in AI models, has resulted in convoluted business processes for getting data to users. Data governance.

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Data-driven Enterprise Data Governance Prescriptive Analytics 57

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We have to do Search Engine Optimization. It is also important to point out that I am keeping the data simple purely to keep communication of the story straightforward. Here's the outcomes data for the control version of the experiment. We have to do Email Marketing. We have to do Paid Search. We have to do Social Media.

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datapine

MAY 20, 2020

With a powerful dashboard maker , each point of your customer relations can be optimized to maximize your performance while bringing various additional benefits to the picture. When using a CRM dashboard tool , all these benefits will come under a single data-roof, where you can access and share your data across the board.

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O'Reilly on Data

MAY 14, 2020

AI PMs should enter feature development and experimentation phases only after deciding what problem they want to solve as precisely as possible, and placing the problem into one of these categories. Experimentation: It’s just not possible to create a product by building, evaluating, and deploying a single model.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 6, 2007

I am thrilled to say that my book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day has been published and is now widely available. Five Reasons Why You Should Buy Web Analytics: An Hour A Day: Web Analytics: An Hour A Day for the first time provides a Practitioner's in the trenches perspective on web analytics. There I said it.

Analytics 60

Analytics Metrics Marketing Dashboards 60

DataKitchen

APRIL 13, 2021

This is not surprising given that DataOps enables enterprise data teams to generate significant business value from their data. Companies that implement DataOps find that they are able to reduce cycle times from weeks (or months) to days, virtually eliminate data errors, increase collaboration, and dramatically improve productivity.

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Testing Machine Learning Consulting Data Quality 307

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

There is, almost literally, an unlimited number of things you could focus on to create a high impact data-influenced organization. And, as if unlimited is not enough, nearly every month your analytics vendors release new features, you discover new analytics solutions, and as your business is more successful (hurray!)

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Analytics Data-driven Strategy Consulting 141

AWS Big Data

MARCH 20, 2023

In this post, we share how Poshmark improved CX and accelerated revenue growth by using a real-time analytics solution. High-level challenge: The need for real-time analytics Previous efforts at Poshmark for improving CX through analytics were based on batch processing of analytics data and using it on a daily basis to improve CX.

Analytics 52

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 20, 2023

AI platform tools enable knowledge workers to analyze data, formulate predictions and execute tasks with greater speed and precision than they can manually. AI platforms assist with a multitude of tasks ranging from enforcing data governance to better workload distribution to the accelerated construction of machine learning models.

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Machine Learning Manufacturing Cost-Benefit Deep Learning 79

AWS Big Data

JULY 20, 2023

With data becoming the driving force behind many industries today, having a modern data architecture is pivotal for organizations to be successful. In this post, we describe Orca’s journey building a transactional data lake using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Apache Iceberg, and AWS Analytics.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 7, 2023

Speed of delivery was the primary objective during the years leading into the pandemic, and CIOs looked to improve customer experiences and establish real-time analytics capabilities. There are similar concerns for CIOs looking to build data and analytics capabilities.

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Digital Transformation Data Governance Experimentation Machine Learning 145

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Amazon DataZone enables customers to discover, access, share, and govern data at scale across organizational boundaries, reducing the undifferentiated heavy lifting of making data and analytics tools accessible to everyone in the organization. Govern data access across organizational boundaries.

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Metadata Data Lake Publishing Data Governance 98

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Company UX leaders are happy to stink less by taking the sub-optimal path of responsive design, rather than create a mobile-unique experience (your customers tend to do different things on your desktop site than your mobile site!). Then approach each separately (even though there are tools like Google Analytics that will do both).

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Metrics Reporting Analytics Marketing 141

datapine

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Today’s digital data has given the power to an average Internet user a massive amount of information that helps him or her to choose between brands, products or offers, making the market a highly competitive arena for the best ones to survive. First things first – organizing and prioritizing your marketing data.

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Corinium

APRIL 25, 2019

Ahead of the Chief Data Analytics Officers & Influencers, Insurance event we caught up with Dominic Sartorio, Senior Vice President for Products & Development, Protegrity to discuss how the industry is evolving. The last 10+ years or so have seen Insurance become as data-driven as any vertical industry.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) There is lots of missing data. And as if that were not enough, there is lots of unknowable data. The simplest way to start is to look at your Assisted Conversions report in Google Analytics. " low.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 27, 2015

Here are the digital myths that are leading us down a profoundly sub-optimal path: 1. A data-first strategy is a winning formula. Per our friends at Wikipedia, Programmatic encompasses an array of technologies that automate the buying, placement and optimization of media inventory. A data-first strategy is a winning formula.

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Marketing Analytics Marketing Analytics Advertising 153

Domino Data Lab

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In Paco Nathan ‘s latest column, he explores the role of curiosity in data science work as well as Rev 2 , an upcoming summit for data science leaders. Welcome back to our monthly series about data science. and dig into details about where science meets rhetoric in data science. Introduction.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Data is a key strategic asset for every organization, and every company is a data business at its core. However, in many organizations, data is typically spread across a number of different systems such as software as a service (SaaS) applications, operational databases, and data warehouses.

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