September, 2017

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A Business Analyst's Guide To Managing Change Requests

BA Learnings

It’s common knowledge that people tend to resist change as much as they can. However, without change, there can’t be progress and BAs would certainly not have that much to do. When working on large projects, change requests from stakeholders are to be expected. Successful project managers and analysts know how to manage them without bringing the project to a standstill.

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When faster data science moves the world

IBM Big Data Hub

Learn how the IBM Integrated Analytics System, a unified data platform built on the IBM Common SQL Engine, helps do data science faster with high performance, embedded machine learning capabilities and built-in tools for data scientists to deliver analytics critical to increasing your organization’s competitiveness.

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Should I Eat This Fish - A Redesign

Darkhorse

A few years ago we worked with the Alberta Government on a tool that would make Fish Consumption Advisories more accessible to the general public. And after working its way through the government’s approvals process that tool is finally here. One of the problems with eating fish, besides the smell it can leave in the office microwave, is that mercury accumulates in their bodies over time, and we humans don’t mix well with mercury.

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Spark vs. Hadoop MapReduce: Which big data framework to choose

ScienceSoft

Hadoop MapReduce or Apache Spark? We explore two leading big data frameworks to understand the business needs each of them can satisfy.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know as a Data or Product Professional

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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The Abridged Guide To Pitching Your Startup

Bruno Aziza

With Y Combinator’s deadline for their Winter 2018 class coming up soon, Stripe distilled these lessons into a comprehensive guide for early stage companies on pitching investors.

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Smart Data Visualization Walks You Through to Success

Smarten

Take the Guesswork Out of Analytics with Smart Data Visualization! Smart data visualization takes the guesswork out of data analysis. Why ask your business users to use cumbersome, difficult tools to analyze data or expect them to wait for professional analysts or IT staff to satisfy their analytical needs. They have a job to do and you hold them accountable for results but if they don’t have the right data visualization tools, they can’t get the most out of data.

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Learning Machine Learning? Six articles you don’t want to miss

IBM Big Data Hub

Digital disruption has revolutionized the way we live and do business — and machine learning is the latest wave of that revolution.

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Data Visualization Best Practices

Paris Technologies

We’re living a data-generating reality in a digital world. The amount of data just keeps expanding; its potential to teach us growing along with it. Data wants to tell us its story. What is Data Visualization and Why is it Important? When we talk about data visualization, we are talking about a kind of translator […].

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Why CEOs should hang tech-washing out to dry

Mark Raskino

During his address to the American nation on April 30th 1973, President Richard Nixon provided his now famous line “there can be no Whitewash at the White House” The analogy of using white paint to cover up a mess was not new, but ever since – journalists and copywriters have been in love with it. In the marketing of technology a derivative use has become common.

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Five Tips To Improve Your Corporate Security Program

Bruno Aziza

Cyber threats are now a part of day-to-day business that organizations must face and address. More companies are looking to build robust IT organizations with enhanced capabilities to combat the ever-evolving cyber threats.

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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Predictive Analysis Tools are Not Just for Analysts

Smarten

Plug n’ Play Predictive Analytics Solutions for Every Business User! Predictive analysis is very important to your organization. If you can dependably predict and forecast results, you can stay ahead of the competition, address changing customer needs, capitalize on opportunities and solve problems before they negatively impact your enterprise.

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The Internet of Things Uncovers the Value of Big Data

Information Builders

Image source: pixabay. Analytic Applications Focused on Connected Machines, Sensors, and Personal Devices Can Operationalize Insights and Monetize Data read more.

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How to succeed in the multi-cloud era

IBM Big Data Hub

In a time when data is perhaps a business’s most valuable resource, the ability to access, protect and analyze information plays a critical role in an organization’s overall multi-cloud strategy. Here's how to succeed.

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State of Bandcamp Recommender, Late 2017

Data Science and Beyond

November 2017: Update and goodbye I’ve decided to shut down Bandcamp Recommender (BCRecommender), despite hearing back from a few volunteers. The main reasons are: Bandcamp now shows album recommendations at the bottom of album pages. While this isn’t quite the same as BCRecommender, I hope that it will evolve to a more comprehensive recommender system.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Investing in Information

Paris Technologies

“Information is only useful when it can be understood” – Muriel Cooper Just about everything in life benefits from having the right information at the right time. In a business context, organizations that leverage information quickly are more agile, allowing them to respond faster to market trends, giving them an upper hand over their competitors. […].

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A 'Gathering Of Data Scientists' Extends Its Influence

Bruno Aziza

As the market and ecosystem have matured, there is more coverage of actual use – what are people doing with the data? What does that mean for individuals, companies, governments, and society as a whole?

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Plug n’ Play! Analytics that Leads Business Users to Success

Smarten

Plug n’ Play Predictive Analysis: Sophisticated, Yet Easy for Every User! Oh, the confusion of advanced analytical terminology. Read a report, attend a conference and your head is swirling with terms like ‘assisted predictive modeling’, plug n’ play predictive analysis, smart visualization, augmented data discovery and augmented data preparation.

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Empire Airlines Takes Off With Turnkey Business Intelligence Appliance

Information Builders

Empire Airlines Takes Off With Turnkey BI Appliance. Scale Computing's Analytics Appliance Combines WebFOCUS BUE Software With HC3 Virtualization Platform. As Empire Airlines grew and its operation became more complex, senior managers saw the need to acquire a software platform for business intelligence (BI), analytics, and reporting. Simply put, however, Empire Airlines wanted more than BI.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Transforming a city with data and insight

IBM Big Data Hub

For the first time in human experience, there’s the opportunity to transform a city by listening to all of its inhabitants, individually. That’s the mission of the Jakarta Smart City (JSC) project, and it’s a major challenge in a district of some 10 million residents.

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State of Bandcamp Recommender, Late 2017

Data Science and Beyond

Call for BCRecommender maintainers followed by a decision to shut it down, as I don’t have enough time and Bandcamp now offers recommendations.

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CEOs Must End Digital Business Planning Paralysis

Mark Raskino

Something I’ve noticed in a few interactions this year, has been too much planning for digital business innovation. We meet with some technology and business executives who have been strategizing and planning how to set up a digital business innovation center or capability for months and months. sometimes a year, or even two years. endless tunnel CC 2.0 kimdokhac via Flickr.

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Customer big data analytics: an overview

ScienceSoft

Is your business among those taking the most from customer analytics? Read our new business intelligence blog post to check.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Data Discovery Tools Help Your Discover Success

Smarten

Advanced Data Discovery to Advance Your Business! Advanced Data Discovery is only possible with the right data discovery tools. If you want to encourage smart data discovery, you don’t need smarter users – you need smarter tools. Advanced Analytics Tools should be simple enough for every business user to perform advanced data discovery using auto-suggested relationships and revealing the impact of decisions and changes within the organization.

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Why Should Americans Care About Foreign Privacy?

Bruno Aziza

Protecting the privacy of foreign users of American internet services is not just good for business, it is good for everyone’s privacy – including Americans.

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Accelerating time-to-market with fabricated test data

IBM Big Data Hub

Protecting personal and sensitive data is vital. But, understanding the regulatory environment and available tools is just the first step. There are still challenges when building and managing test data environments. Here's how to overcome them.

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Axicom Boosts Engineering Productivity With Self-Service Analytics

Information Builders

Axicom Boosts Engineering Productivity With Self-Service Analytics. Integration and Intelligence Technologies Accelerate Journey to the Cloud. Axicom, Australia’s leading provider of independently owned wireless infrastructure, chose technologies from Information Builders to generate real-time data and in-depth analytics that delivered immediate cost savings throughout the company.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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The story of every distribution - Discrete Distributions

MLWhiz

Distributions play an important role in the life of every Statistician. I coming from a non-statistic background am not so well versed in these and keep forgetting about the properties of these famous distributions. That is why I chose to write my own understanding in an intuitive way to keep a track. One of the most helpful way to learn more about these is the STAT110 course by Joe Blitzstein and his book.

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Will The Real HCI Market Leader Please Stand Up?

Nutanix

IDC recently published its latest market share statistics for “Converged Infrastructure,” which includes the rapidly-growing hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market as a distinct category.

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Advanced Analytics: If You Don’t Know What You Need, How Can You Succeed?

Smarten

Every enterprise is talking about Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics. Every enterprise has considered the benefits of implementing self-serve analytics across the organization and involving business users in the process. Panel discussions at technology conferences and hallway conversations among executives and IT staff encourage the trend and create anxiety within the organization that has not yet embraced advanced analytics at the grassroots level.

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Mega Breaches Encourage IT to Clamp Down, and That's a Bad Idea

Bruno Aziza

As CIOs and CISOs struggle with a constantly evolving security landscape, they need to put their focus on agility over security to stay relevant.

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Addressing Top Enterprise Challenges in Generative AI with DataRobot

The buzz around generative AI shows no sign of abating in the foreseeable future. Enterprise interest in the technology is high, and the market is expected to gain momentum as organizations move from prototypes to actual project deployments. Ultimately, the market will demand an extensive ecosystem, and tools will need to streamline data and model utilization and management across multiple environments.