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Five Ideas to Improve Your Analytics Return
It’s natural for an analytic team to hit a plateau. That place where they accomplished their goals and need to figure out how they can continue generating value. Sometimes these teams have a backlog of projects that need to be prioritized. Other times these teams aren’t sure where to go
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Cloudera and Hortonworks Cease Fire
Like brothers on opposite sides of a conflict, Cloudera and Hortonworks have decided in favor of peace and reuniting the family. The merger of Cloudera and Hortonworks brings financial and product line synergies. More than 70% of their portfolios are the same Hadoop open source software. This means duplicate development
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Building an Analytics Team for Your Organization
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Don't Mistake a Legacy Skillset for a Legacy Mindset
It goes without saying that the analytics and data science space is undergoing change at an unprecedented pace. At the same time, many organizations have a lot of people who are still working in the same way using the same skills they have had for years. Organizations certainly need
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International Institute for Analytics Honors Honeywell with 2018 ANNY Excellence in Analytics Award
The International Institute for Analytics (IIA), the leading independent analytics and data science research and advisory firm, named Honeywell the winner of the 2018 ANNY Excellence in Analytics Award at IIA’s Analytics Symposium in Atlanta. Honeywell’s Aerospace division won the Excellence in Analytics Award for their Dynamic Value Pricing initiative.
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Highlights from the 2018 Analytics Symposium – Atlanta
Yesterday, almost 200 of IIA’s clients, analytics experts and advisory network members gathered together to discuss the top trends and challenges of the analytics industry. The presentations were insightful, drove conversations and had actionable takeaways. The three themes of transformation, artificial intelligence (AI), and data-driven cultures were threaded in all
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A First Step Towards Strong AI
A common view in the press and in artificial intelligence research is that sentient and intelligent machines are just on the horizon. After all, machines diagnose and treat illnesses, drive cars, grow our food, manufacture and deliver new products, distinguish pictures, and play games better than we do. How much
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Agile Analytics Manifesto
IIA recently attended the Strata Data Conference in New York City where several of the presenters discussed using agile development processes for analytics work. Many organizations struggle with implementing agile or don’t see the expected results because they treat agile as just another process.If you are considering the use of
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Women in Technology: The Future of Data Analytics
I attended the Women in Technology International meeting featuring a panel discussion on the “Future of Data Analytics” and it gave me great hope for the future of the practice of analytics. The format was audience Q&A and the three panelists – Rehgan Avon, Katie Sasso and Kristen Stovell –
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The Achilles Heel of Artificial Intelligence
In a previous blog, I discussed how Artificial Intelligence (AI) today merely has specific intelligence as opposed to generalized intelligence. This means that an AI process can appear quite intelligent within very specific bounds yet fall apart if the context in which the process was built is changed. In