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Three Emerging Analytics Products Derived from Value-driven Data Innovation and Insights Discovery in the Enterprise

Rocket-Powered Data Science

I recently saw an informal online survey that asked users which types of data (tabular, text, images, or “other”) are being used in their organization’s analytics applications. This was not a scientific or statistically robust survey, so the results are not necessarily reliable, but they are interesting and provocative.

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What are decision support systems? Sifting data for better business decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

Decision support systems definition A decision support system (DSS) is an interactive information system that analyzes large volumes of data for informing business decisions. A DSS leverages a combination of raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to help users make decisions. Data-driven DSS.

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Uncertainties: Statistical, Representational, Interventional

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

by AMIR NAJMI & MUKUND SUNDARARAJAN Data science is about decision making under uncertainty. Some of that uncertainty is the result of statistical inference, i.e., using a finite sample of observations for estimation. But there are other kinds of uncertainty, at least as important, that are not statistical in nature.

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2021 Data/AI Salary Survey

O'Reilly on Data

In June 2021, we asked the recipients of our Data & AI Newsletter to respond to a survey about compensation. There was a lot of uncertainty about stability, particularly at smaller companies: Would the company’s business model continue to be effective? Would your job still be there in a year? Executive Summary. Demographics.

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Disrupt and Innovate in a Data-Driven World

Cloudera

If you do an internet search for ‘data-driven disruption’ you can find articles about almost every industry being disrupted by digitalisation and new applications of data. While there are instances of data-driven efforts in the nonprofit sector, they are not as widespread as they can be.

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11 dark secrets of data management

CIO Business Intelligence

Some call data the new oil. Philosophers and economists may argue about the quality of the metaphor, but there’s no doubt that organizing and analyzing data is a vital endeavor for any enterprise looking to deliver on the promise of data-driven decision-making. And to do so, a solid data management strategy is key.

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What you need to know about product management for AI

O'Reilly on Data

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. Machine learning adds uncertainty.