Tue.Jan 08, 2019

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7 data trends on our radar

O'Reilly on Data

From infrastructure to tools to training, Ben Lorica looks at what’s ahead for data. Whether you’re a business leader or a practitioner, here are key data trends to watch and explore in the months ahead. Increasing focus on building data culture, organization, and training. In a recent O’Reilly survey , we found that the skills gap remains one of the key challenges holding back the adoption of machine learning.

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Blockchain And GDPR: Not Mutually Exclusive But Can Be A Toxic Blend

Martha Bennett

Depending on who you listen to, the combination of GDPR and distributed ledger technology (DLT, AKA blockchain) is either a poisonous cocktail or a magic potion. As you’d expect, the reality is more nuanced: While GPDR poses a challenge to DLT-based architectures, it doesn’t make them obsolete or unviable. Furthermore, DLT can actually form an integral […].

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Data Science: Influencers review 2018 and share their 2019 predictions

IBM Big Data Hub

Data science was one of the hot topics of 2018, and it’s likely to dominate again in 2019. We've asked five key data science influencers to take a look back at 2018 and look ahead at what's to come in 2019.

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Blockchain And GDPR: Not Mutually Exclusive But Can Be A Toxic Blend

Martha Bennett

Depending on who you listen to, the combination of GDPR and distributed ledger technology (DLT, AKA blockchain) is either a poisonous cocktail or a magic potion. As you’d expect, the reality is more nuanced: While GPDR poses a challenge to DLT-based architectures, it doesn’t make them obsolete or unviable. Furthermore, DLT can actually form an integral […].

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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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The Advantages of Augmented Analytics!

Smarten

What Are the Advantages of Augmented Analytics? Advanced analytics benefits are too numerous to mention! What if your business users could leverage self-serve advanced analytics to see and use data in a way that made their jobs easier and made them more of an asset to the business? Augmented Analytics advantages support users by empowering them and encouraging user adoption with auto-recommendations and suggestions that help them visualize data in a way that makes sense for the type of data they

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A holistic approach to segmentation and customer analysis

3AG Systems

Customer analysis may be the most important market segmentation analysis you can perform for your business. Without it, trying to find new customers, or selling more services to existing customers, will likely have limited success. Unless you really get to know your customers, your business won’t be a in position to meet their needs. The traditional approach to customer analysis is often driven by marketing because this team needs to understand the customer to target them directly.