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Algorithms are shaping our lives—here’s how we wrest back control

O'Reilly on Data

The O’Reilly Data Show Podcast: Kartik Hosanagar on the growing power and sophistication of algorithms. In this episode of the Data Show , I spoke with Kartik Hosanagar , professor of technology and digital business, and professor of marketing at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Hosanagar is also the author of a newly released book, A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence , an interesting tour through the recent evolution of AI applications that draws from his extensive expe

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Jet Global Ranks 24th on 2019 Top 100 Best Companies to Work for in Oregon

Jet Global

Jet Global is honored to be recognized for its commitment to workplace best practices as one of the t op 100 b est companies to work for in Oregon. . You love us ; you really love us! Oregon Business recently revealed the 2019 Top 100 Best Companies to Work for in Oregon and guess who made the list ? After a transformational year of growth , Jet Global Data Technologies (Jet Global) is proud to be recognized as one of the top medium-sized e mployer s in the state. .

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Game-Changing Analytics: How the Philadelphia 76ers Scored Big Wins Off the Court

DataRobot

For the Philadelphia 76ers, data is an integral part of how they work, helping them make strategic decisions on both the sports and corporate sides of the organization. On the business side, they knew that taking a data-driven approach could help them become much more efficient in how they approach their ticket sales process. Enter automated machine learning with the layup.

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Trusting AI to save lives in India

IBM Big Data Hub

India’s current patient to physician ratio prevents thousands from receiving individualized care needed. iKure has developed a network of facilities with an integrated EMR system that brings care to rural communities in India, Vietnam, and Africa at an affordable and convenient way.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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The Big Picture: Data, Analytics, and Marketing

Sisense

The rise of analytics is affecting every industry. The marketing field is ahead of the curve, having been a metrics-driven industry for decades, but which metrics a company decides to focus on, how they track and report (and analyze) those metrics, and what they do with that analysis makes all the difference. In a chat with CEO Garrett Mehrguth from Directive Consulting, we discussed the impact that analytics (overall and customer-facing), have had on the marketing world and where this trend is

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How to Use Analytics to Avoid Problems, Before They Impact Your Business

Teradata

Rob Armstrong uses the metaphor of turbulence when flying, to explains how businesses can prepare themselves for, and respond to, previously unforeseen challenges.

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How to Use Analytics to Avoid Problems, Before They Impact Your Business

Teradata

Rob Armstrong uses the metaphor of turbulence when flying, to explains how businesses can prepare themselves for, and respond to, previously unforeseen challenges.

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Economics Corner: Are Prices and Wages Sticky? It Depends…

Andrew White

Wages tend, if they ever move, to go up but rarely down. You may have had personal experience that reinforces this observation. If you are a retailer then your labor costs are in nominal terms basically flat or up, from year to year. If the economy does well, business might be good, so you raise wages, and perhaps prices too. But if the economy slows down or contracts, wages tend not to contract; perhaps some workers are laid-off entirely so reducing the overall labor costs while keeping labor r

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Reimagining Possibilities & Demystifying Exponential Technologies: A Panel Discussion

bridgei2i

Bangalore, 14th March 2019. BRIDGEi2i played host to an engaging panel discussion with the authors of the Wiley Innovation Black Book on Exponential Technologies. Moderating the discussion was Prithvijit Roy, CEO of BRIDGEi2i and the panelists were: Anees Merchant, Divesh Singla, Sameer Dhanrajani, Saraswathi Ramachandra and Vijaya Kumar Ivaturi, each a pioneer in their respective analytics domain.

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Data Mapping Tools: What Are the Key Differentiators

erwin

The need for data mapping tools in light of increasing volumes and varieties of data – as well as the velocity at which it must be processed – is growing. It’s not difficult to see why either. Data mapping tools have always been a key asset for any organization looking to leverage data for insights. Isolated units of data are essentially meaningless.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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Stop Making People Read Across Multiple Pie Charts (& Here’s What to Do Instead)

Depict Data Studio

It’s 3.14— Happy Pi (e Chart) Day! If you’ve read this blog before, or heard me speak, then you know that designing data visualization makeovers is one of my favorite activities of all time. I love r edesigning pie charts , in particular. The vast majority of data visualization trainings just advise people to stop using pie charts… without teaching people what to do instead.