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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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Analytics Maturity: How the DELTA Framework Drives Change Management
Join International Institute for Analytics (IIA) Executive Director Kathy Koontz as she walks through how analytics maturity plays into the internal cultural shift that needs to happen to allow analytics to have a real impact. As your organization moves farther away from the IT mindset, analytics change from a tool
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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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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
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What’s Your Deployment Score?
Analytics, we have often assumed, is all about modeling, statistics, and algorithms. The more generous explainers of the field would admit that it is also about data—the integration, cleaning, and massaging of it. Few, however, think first of “deployment” when the subject of analytics is raised.And that is a problem.
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Garbage In, Garbage Out: Design Process Survey
My name is Brian T. O’Neill, and when I’m not getting paid to strike percussion instruments in musically appealing ways, I run an independent design and UX consultancy called Designing for Analytics that specializes in custom enterprise data products and analytics apps. IIA recently invited me to write a guest
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Analytics Maturity: Making Technology and Analysis Work Smarter
Join Bill Franks, CAO of IIA and David Alles, VP of IIA as they share how Technology and Analysis of the DELTA Plus model of analytics maturity will drive a greater impact in your company's analytics efforts.
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Jump Proudly on the AI Bandwagon
When I talk with analytical professionals about artificial intelligence, many are reluctant to claim expertise in the area or bill themselves as AI practitioners. “I don’t want to appear to be just jumping on the bandwagon,” one told me recently. They may see the enthusiasm for AI as somewhat faddish,
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An Expensive And Common Cloud Analytics Mistake
The move to the cloud is continuing to accelerate and most organizations I deal with are at minimum incorporating cloud platforms and processing into their architectures … if not pressing to move largely to the cloud. While there are many advantages to the cloud, it is also necessary to use