Thu.Dec 08, 2022

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Innovation chief Claus T. Jensen on executing a vision

CIO Business Intelligence

Claus T. Jensen, PhD, is known for boldly initiating and leading complex, multi-year transformation initiatives. The author of six books, including his latest, Digital Transformation for Dummies , Jensen’s career journey spans 20 years of transformational leadership in CTO, CIO, and CDO roles at organizations like Danske Bank, IBM, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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3 Free Machine Learning Courses for Beginners

KDnuggets

Begin your machine learning career with free courses by Georgia Tech, Stanford, and Fast AI.

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How security fears are driving network modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

The negative impact of legacy networks can be substantial: increased operational costs, restricted potential for digital transformation and difficulty responding to the demands of the business. NTT’s research finds that two in three organizations confirm their technical debt has accumulated, with 71% saying that low network maturity levels are negatively impacting their operational delivery and ability to meet business goals.

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Yeshi Milner: Fighting for a More Equitable and Inclusive World With Data

Dataiku

When I started working my first analytics job after college, I thought that data would give us a complete view of our world, and shed light on truths we as humans would not have known. I was excited to learn from the data and use it to give a voice to underrepresented communities.

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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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Why, and when, CIOs deserve a seat at the M&A negotiating table

CIO Business Intelligence

When one company acquires another, it’s typically to enter a new market, gain market share, or obtain a new technology. In all three cases, IT systems and the data they hold are crucial to the realization of those goals. “The biggest mistake most companies make when they’re looking at deals is they tend to minimize the investments necessary to bring the organizations together and drive costs out of the IT function to get those synergies,” says Mike Macrie, CIO of toy maker Melissa and Doug, who

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The 5 Rules For Good Data Science Project Documentation

KDnuggets

Once data scientist finishes building the project, they will need to do the task that most of us hate that is documenting the code.

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Five Ways to do Conditional Filtering in Pandas

KDnuggets

Learn five ways to perform conditional filtering with Pandas to help slice and dice your data.

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IBM to acquire Octo to boost its US government business

CIO Business Intelligence

IBM has announced it is acquiring US-based digital transformation services provider Octo for an undisclosed amount from private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners. Octo exclusively serves the US federal government, including its defense, health, and civilian agencies, boosting IBM’s ability to expand its presence in this highly lucrative segment.

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Metadata, the Neglected Stepchild of IT

Data Virtualization

Reading Time: 3 minutes While cleaning up our archive recently, I found an old article published in 1976 about data dictionary/directory systems (DD/DS). It was written by L. Delport. Nowadays, we no longer use the term DD/DS, but “data catalog” or simply “metadata system”. The post Metadata, the Neglected Stepchild of IT appeared first on Data Virtualization blog - Data Integration and Modern Data Management Articles, Analysis and Information.

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How Edge as a Service is shaping the future of fan engagement

CIO Business Intelligence

The Tour de France is many things. It’s the world’s largest cycling event, attracting 150 million TV viewers in Europe alone and 10 million fans across social media platforms. It’s also a huge logistical challenge, requiring a complex network of road closures as well as ensuring millions of spectators enjoy the race safely. Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.), the organizers of the Tour de France, also need to ensure they can tell the story of the race to a vast audience of fans, something that h

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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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Salesforce Genie: One More Enterprise Data Warehouse and Analytics Option

Boris Evelson

Dear Salesforce, haven’t I been a good, objective, reasonable, helpful industry analyst? Why would you make my life more difficult? For years clients have been reaching out with the following question: If a significant portion of all my enterprise data comes from SAP or Oracle business applications (ERP, CRM, etc.), should SAP BW/4HANA or Oracle […].

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Bringing the power: Generac CIO Tim Dickson says IT leaders need to start innovating today

CIO Business Intelligence

This article was co-authored by Duke Dyksterhouse , an Associate at Metis Strategy. A lobby television isn’t all that uncommon or remarkable for a $4.5-billion-dollar company, but what’s on the 85-inch screen in the lobby of Generac’s headquarters certainly is. Rather than the predictable advertisements or staged photos featuring happy employees, it’s a demo of the energy management firm’s latest innovation, called PowerINSIGHTS.

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New Research Finds Data Quality Chasm Looms as Organizations Strive for Data Fluency

Jet Global

Report from insightsoftware and Hanover Research reveals the gaps that need to be bridged to reach data fluency, noting challenges in data quality and connection. Raleigh, NC—December 8, 2022 — insightsoftware , a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions, today released research that shows data quality is the biggest challenge organizations face when making data-driven decisions.

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Data science is sexy; data engineering is marriage material

3AG Systems

Is Data Scientist still the sexiest job of the 21 st century ? In 2022, Harvard Business Review posted an article by Thomas H. Davenport and DJ Patil addressing this question, which they first posed in 2012. When the Data Scientist role “was relatively new” in 2012, the authors observed that “as more companies attempted to make sense of big data, they realized they needed people who could combine programming, analytics, and experimentation skills.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Modern cloud-based networks: the key to high-level commercial performance?

CIO Business Intelligence

Here’s a proposition to consider: among the ranks of large enterprises, commercial success increasingly relies on digital transformation. In turn, digital transformation relies on modernized enterprise networks that deliver flexibility, performance and availability from the edge to the cloud. Intuitively, this hypothesis makes a lot of sense. In many enterprises, it’s also increasingly becoming the subject of painstaking debate.

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Key Insights: Forrester’s New Data Governance Solutions Landscape

Alation

Data governance is growing in urgency and prominence. As regulations grow more complex (and compliance fines more onerous) organizations aren’t just adapting data governance frameworks to drive compliance – they’re leveraging governance to fuel a growing range of use cases, from collaboration to stewardship, discovery, and more. So how should newcomers get started?