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Blog Posts: Methods & Practices

Most analytics leaders put self-service analytics at the top of their list of items on their annual roadmap, but they never seem to talk about the potentially disastrous implications of creating self-service tools. Enabling self-service analytics sounds straightforward where data…

Starting approximately 2018 with ELMO, a new class of machine learning models called large language models (LLMs) has been developing at an extremely rapid pace. These models may differ slightly in their architectures, training data sets, goals and limitations. However,…

Europe’s GDPR. California’s CCPA. The AI Act. The Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. New York’s City Local Law 144. The Algorithmic Accountability Act. The American Data Protection and Privacy Act. The Algorithmic Justice and Online Platform Transparency Act.…

Over the last ten years, dashboards have become a crucial asset in the analytics space. Stakeholders want dashboards built for limitless reasons; analysts and managers rely on them for daily insights; and the dashboard vendors (such Tableau and PowerBI) assert…

It’s no secret that one COVID trend that will remain is that of at least partial remote work arrangements for many professionals. In recent months, there has been a push for employees, including analytics and data science teams, to come…

Scrum Guide: “Scrum is a lightweight framework that helps people, teams and organizations generate value through adaptive solutions for complex problems.” Scrum has been super for many years. I’m amazed by its success in marketing; it’s like the Kardashians of…

Delivering an effective data-driven presentation to a live audience isn’t the same as discussing technical details with peers or compiling a written document. This is especially true when, as is often the case, the presentation is for a largely nontechnical…

Read below for a roundup of interesting sites, resources, and articles from around the web, curated and contextualized by unbiased analytics experts at IIA. Highlights include articles about the importance of an effective data strategy; the key mindsets that differentiate…

A significant amount of both media attention and venture capital money has recently been given to low-code and no-code tools that focus on the areas of analytics, data science, and artificial intelligence. This blog will review the value propositions of…