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Five Reasons to Attend IIA's Analytics Symposium in Portland
We’re excited to host the semi-annual Analytics Symposium in IIA’s hometown: Portland, Oregon on March 12-13 at the historic Sentinel Hotel. Come hear top analytics leaders share their experiences in executing successful programs within their organization, trends they see influencing the industry and innovations that are changing the analytics
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Don’t Be an Analytical Jerk!
There are a lot of skills necessary to be a successful analytics or AI leader within an organization. You’re probably familiar with them; you need quantitative skills, business acumen, tech and programming capabilities, yadda, yadda, yadda. You have heard these over and over again, and my guess is that if
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Article Review: The New Job Description for Data Scientists
The New Job Description for Data Scientists, an InformationWeek article by Rich Wagner, outlines important trends about the future of data scientists and their role in analytics functions. This blog covers key takeaways from Wagner’s article and three recommendations for analytics leaders based on the trends discussed.Key TakeawaysAutomation of time-intensive
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A Common Trap That Undermines Analytics Credibility
Over the years, I’ve seen analytics professionals of all stripes blow their credibility and lessen their impact by falling into a common trap. I have to admit that I fell victim to the same trap early in my career. While our intentions are pure, our analytical minds and approaches can
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Three Steps for Creating the Analytics Dream Team
Building your team is hard work. Finding the right skills, the right personalities, the right types of motivation to build a team that works well together like a well-oiled machine… feels almost impossible at times. So what do you do? We at International Institute for Analytics (IIA) have been answering
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Human or Machine? Two Paths for Deploying Analytics
As data science and analytics teams continue to feel pressure to deliver more value from analytics, many organizations still struggle with the processes and technology required to deploy models into production and more rapidly make data-driven decisions. When evaluating how to best undertake these activities, organizations should consider an important
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Highlights From the AI Conference Keynotes
This week, IIA attended The AI Conference presented by O’Reilly Media and Intel AI (#TheAIConf) in New York City. The conference tagline was “Put AI to Work” and it provided an informative and comprehensive overview of the current state of artificial intelligence. Session topics ranged from cutting edge research
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Name Dropping by Analytics Thought Leaders at Strata + Hadoop World
2016 marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of Hadoop. I recently attended Strata + Hadoop World (“Strata”) in New York City from September 26-29, 2016 and the size and scope of this show certainly reflect the growth and mainstream adoption of Hadoop and its ever-expanding ecosystem.Strata has historically been
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March Madness at Strata + Hadoop World
The first week of March Madness is complete. 68 teams have been whittled down to 16 and the potential winners of many office pools have already been decided. It is estimated that Americans will play over 70 million brackets and wager over $10.4B on this year’s NCAA tournament. Given
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Spring Analytics Symposium in Review – Portland, OR 2019
Nearly 200 of International Institute for Analytics’ clients, analytics experts, and members of the analytics community gathered in Portland, Oregon this week for the spring Analytics Symposium. International Institute for Analytics (IIA) also hosted its first Women in Analytics networking event, an interactive Analytics Workshop, and introduced two tracks