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The Case For A Chief Data Scientist
The rise of analytics and data science executives has received a lot of attention in recent years. Similarly, there has been substantial focus on the analysts and data scientists who get the work done. Both types of roles are required if success is to be achieved. However, is an important
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Fighting Fires with Advanced Analytics and Innovative Tech
I’m a native Oregonian and my heart is broken after seeing so many of the beautiful spaces that I have explored throughout my life disappear over the past week. The loss of life, displacement of thousands of Oregonians (at least 10% of the state’s population) and the impact on the
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Securing Innovation in Your Analytics Pipeline
Warning, this blog contains a rant and rampant borrowing of innovation frameworks from publicly available sources. It’s a post about innovation that intentionally avoids creating something entirely new.A Not So Random Rant While there are many things that I love about the data and analytics profession there are a couple
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September: Best of the Web
Here is a roundup of interesting sites, resources and articles from around the web, curated by IIA. This month’s edition includes great articles on Cigna’s analytics transformation, why analytics initiatives fail, AI challenges and 20 “next big thing” technology trends that will shape the world. Follow us on Twitter (@iianalytics)
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Win By Keeping Data Science Simple
Getting too fancy by using complex and layered data science approaches can magnify the issues in data instead of controlling them. This blog will explain why and illustrate with a real-world example that I also discussed in The Analytics Revolution to show that the old rule of keeping it simple
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Analytics Excellence Shines in a Tumultuous Year
The year 2020 can’t seem to end fast enough for many of us. Whether your industry is being hurt by, or benefiting from, the global pandemic, every firm has been forced to manage risk and uncertainty more than ever before. One central theme from IIA’s 2020 Fall Symposium was the
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5 Areas for Analytics Leaders to Obsess About – Fast & Flexible Architecture
You Are Not A Unicorn, You Exist in RealityLook across The 5 Differentiators of companies that use analytics for competitive advantage and you’ll see one of the great challenges for analytics leaders – the sheer diversity of areas of knowledge that analytics leaders need to understand well in order to
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October: Best of the Web
Here is a roundup of interesting sites, resources and articles from around the web, curated by IIA. This month’s edition includes great articles on data literacy, data engineering, AI strategy, diversity and GPT-3. Follow us on Twitter (@iianalytics) and LinkedIn to receive daily updates on IIA content and curated content
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Machine Learning Only Generates Value If You Bridge the Quant/Business Cultural Divide
In this article, I identify extraordinary unmet learner needs and address them with a free offering: my business-oriented machine learning course series, which is designed to fulfill those needs – three vendor-neutral courses that deliver material critical for both techies and business leaders. If you or members of your team
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Data as a Shared Language – A Business Accelerator
Earlier this year, I wrote about the City of San Francisco and how its CDO, Joy Bonaguro led a massive enterprise training program to boost data literacy about five years ago. The SF Data Academy was designed to train the masses and up-skill the workforce on tools, technology, and best