PsyOps Part 2: Winning the Hearts and Minds of Business Users

Jun 27, 2016 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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To succeed as a business analytics (BA)professional, it’s not enough to provide great technology and architectexquisite solutions. You must win the hearts and minds of business people. Thisarticle presents four new psychological operations (i.e. PsyOps) tactics thatcan transform how business...

Sports Intelligence - The Role of Technology in Professional Sports

Jun 22, 2016 by Julian Ereth in Cutting-Edge Analytics

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There is a lot of technology in today’s professional sports. It is therefore not surprising that data analytics also plays an increasingly important role in the modern world of sports. This article briefly takes a look on the role of analytics in professional sports and introduces a...

Automating Data Preparation in a Digitalized World, Part 3

Jun 19, 2016 by Barry Devlin in Information Architecture

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In an era of ever increasing volumes of ever dirtier data, the old concepts of data warehouses and ETL must be extended far beyond their current meanings. Both are key components of data preparation as discussed in part 1. Data warehouse automation (DWA) were explored in part 2. This article...

How Deep is your Data?

Jun 05, 2016 by Julian Ereth in Cutting-Edge Analytics

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There is a  lot of talk about machine learning and deep learning these days. Many engineers  see it as a universal remedy for manifold problems. But from a business  perspective, few people understand what these new analytic techniques are and  what they can do for them. This article defines both...

Automating Data Preparation in a Digitalized World, Part 2

May 25, 2016 by Barry Devlin in Information Architecture

ABSTRACT:

In an era of ever increasing volumes of ever  dirtier data, the old concepts of data warehouses and ETL must be extended far  beyond their current meanings. Both are key components of data preparation as  discussed in part 1. Data warehouse automation (DWA) offers new  insights and directions,...