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Dueling Schooling On Big Data And Analytics
There’s been a lot of discussion about the shortage of quantitative analysts and data scientists in this world, and many people wonder where they will all come from. Today I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is that there are a rapidly growing number of
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The Analytics Of Things
The press and blogosphere are full of references to “The Internet of Things” (TIoT) or even “The Internet of Everything.” It’s great to connect inanimate objects to the Internet, of course. But that’s only a first step in terms of doing something useful with all those connected devices. “The Analytics
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Is There A Leadership Vacuum For Big Data?
If big data and analytics are the powerful business resource that I think they are, they need someone to champion and oversee their usage in organizations. The problem is that many organizations don’t really have someone in charge of these capabilities. There is in many companies a leadership vacuum for
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Google And The Transformation Of Marketing
I spoke last fall at the Google Analytics Summit in Mountain View, and couldn’t help being impressed with the pace of change at both Google and the marketing profession in general. As an aside, it struck me that Google today is much like AT&T in its prime: a near-monopoly (though
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2014 IIA Symposium: We're Really Hummin' Now
Along with a number of other IIA faculty, I recently participated in the 2014 IIA Analytics Symposium in Orlando. The event was notable for one primary reason: no, not its location in Downtown Orlando, far from the Disney and Universal crowds. That was interesting, but this is more so: analytics
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For Better And Worse, Big Data Grows Up
A company to which I’m an advisor just released its second annual survey of big data use in large companies. Most of the companies (75%) participating in the survey were large financial firms, but 20% were in healthcare and life sciences, and 5% in other industries. The results of the
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Forecasting The Future Of Analytics: 2014 Edition
With 2014 rapidly approaching, we’re calling on you to aid our world-class faculty of analytics experts and help predict what is in store for next year. Each year, IIA gathers its faculty and leadership to look at the evidence and personal experience and provide a perspective on what the future
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Centenarians Get Frisky With Big Data
While doing some research recently on companies that are incorporating big data into their products and key processes, I noticed that that a disproportionate number seem to be more than a century old. What’s going on with this phenomenon? Here are some examples, ordered by company age.Procter & Gamble, all
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Will Human Analysts Ever Go Away?
Once a week or so I hear from vendors who are creating the “data scientist in a box.” They say they can use software and hardware to get rid of those pesky human data scientists. Somewhat less frequently I hear from senior managers that they want to pursue analytics without
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The Rise Of Next Best Offers
Last week in the IIA we did a webcast for our Retail Analytics Research Council on “next best offers.” I’ve been doing some research on this issue with John Lucker and Leandro DalleMule from Deloitte. I don’t want to give away the punch line of the webcast—or the article we