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Building an Analytics Team for Your Organization Part 3
In a previous blog post, we discussed the foundation of building an analytics team including the four key elements: Leadership & Governance Structure, Scope of Services Charter, Teams and Roles. This blog installment will center on the design of centralized and decentralized models and will also touch on the interdependencies
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Building an Analytics Team for Your Organization, Part 2
As organizations go through the process of establishing its organization structure for an Analytics function, it is imperative to start the design and launch of a new analytics organization with a basic blueprint to ensure that all of the roles, skills, and capabilities are in place from the beginning. It
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Are You Personally Investing With Your Analytics Expertise?
Everyone seems to agree that analytics, AI and Big Data are changing the world and that cloud computing is accelerating the adoption of these technologies. Combined, they are disrupting traditional business models and creating new market opportunities. If you are an analytics leader, data scientist, ML engineer, software engineer or
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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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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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Make Data Work: The Top 7 Most Interesting Strata Data Conference Keynotes
Last week, IIA attended the O’Reilly Strata Data Conference (@StrataData) in New York City. The conference tagline was “Make Data Work” and it provided a comprehensive overview of continued innovation in the big data and analytics ecosystems.Session topics ranged from technical discussions on specific data, analytics and AI technologies
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Is Machine Learning Analytics or AI?
One of the definitional debates that bedevils the artificial intelligence (AI) field is whether machine learning is an AI-based method or technology. Or is it just an analytics-based activity? After all, it is statistical in nature, and attempts—as virtually analytical methods do—to fit a line or curve to a set
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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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Why Attend Fall Symposium?
This fall IIA is bringing together some of the top analytics professionals from around the country to speak at the 2018 Analytics Symposium – Atlanta. These speakers are bringing unique case studies and discussions to this intimate group – discussions that would not be happening anywhere else. The peer-to-peer
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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