June, 2019

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Ten technology trends that are impacting society today

Timo Elliott

I recently did an Innovation Evangelist podcast with Tom Raftery , covering the top innovation trends that I find interesting in business and society today. Here’s a summary of some of the points we covered in the video above: 1. We have a golden opportunity to make the world a better place. Technology is accelerating, and it’s amazing opportunity for win-win-win opportunities.

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How Big Data Will Make Or Break Future Smart Cities

Smart Data Collective

In today’s digital age, big data is incorporated into many aspects our daily lives. Big data is essentially massive amounts of data that is used in order to drive strategic decisions. An example of how it is used in daily life is through using online maps such as Google Maps to take the quickest route to work possible. Through the collection of data , patterns of traffic congestion are produced to give you the best route.

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Business Intelligence Software for All Users!

ElegantJ BI

Understanding Business Intelligence Will Help You Achieve Your Goals! What is business intelligence? It is quite simple, really. Business intelligence is ‘intelligence’ about ‘business’. Having said that, we cannot really presume that ‘intelligence’ is simply data. Data on its own tells us little and can, at times, actually confuse the very issue you are trying to understand.

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An Introduction To Data Dashboards: Meaning, Definition & Industry Examples

Data Pine

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”– Arthur Conan Doyle. Data is all around us. According to the EMC Digital Universe study, by 2020, around 40 trillion megabytes – or 40 zettabytes – will exist in our digital landscape. That’s an unfathomable amount of information. Data has changed our lives in many ways, helping to improve the processes, initiatives, and innovations of organizations across sectors through the power of insight.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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How to write surveys for user research that aren’t terrible

Userzoom

When you use survey questions in your user research , you want them to be designed well. It’s really easy to make bad surveys, and plenty of companies do. Surveys are admittedly overused and often ineffective on their own — the self-reported data that you pull from survey questions is biased and has questionable accuracy. It’s typically much more valuable to gather insights from data on actual behavior and user interviews.

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Podcast: The Future of Analytics is Now!

Timo Elliott

I was recently interviewed on the future of analytics by Tamara McCleary, CEO of Thulium, a social media analytics and consulting agency, for her new “Tech Unknown” podcast. You can read her blog post summary or listen to the podcast directly below. We explored the current state of the art for AI/ML-driven analytics and talked about what business leaders can do prepare for what’s to come: Ways AI and ML-driven analytics drive better business outcomes.

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How To Use Data Analytics To Launch A Sustainable Technology Business

Smart Data Collective

Sustainability is a major concern for many businesses. You probably wouldn’t think that data analytics would be the core solution. Many people believe that the fields of big data and green business have little overlap. However, big data could actually be a wonderful solution for many sustainability problems. People that know me are aware that I have a blog on sustainability, as well as Smart Data Collective.

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Business Intelligence Software for All Users!

ElegantJ BI

Understanding Business Intelligence Will Help You Achieve Your Goals! What is business intelligence? It is quite simple, really. Business intelligence is ‘intelligence’ about ‘business’. Having said that, we cannot really presume that ‘intelligence’ is simply data. Data on its own tells us little and can, at times, actually confuse the very issue you are trying to understand.

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28 Sales Reports Examples You Can Use For Daily, Weekly or Monthly Reports

Data Pine

Using daily and/or weekly sales reports with your team may be the single most powerful action you can take to increase your team’s performance. Don’t believe us? We’ll convince you with an example from another sector – fitness. Let’s say a friend of yours has a goal of losing 10 pounds of fat or gaining 5 pounds of muscle, over the next 2 months. Your friend excitedly tells you their plan, and all of the actions they plan to take to achieve their goal.

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Business Valuation Software: Free Guide to Valutico Platform

Explore our free guide to Valutico, the platform that revolutionizes automated report generation, offers access to 1 million M&A transactions, enables quick benchmarking, and streamlines the entire valuation process. With Valutico, you gain access to: 30-Minute Valuations: Rapidly producing accurate results. 3TB of Financial Data: The expansive data you need at your fingertips.

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The UX of UserZoom: Part one – How we set up our research process

Userzoom

Welcome to ‘ The UX of UserZoom ’ – a new regular series where we reveal how we’re using our very own research product to improve the UX of UserZoom itself! If things were more meta, we’d be sending the Inception team into Jakob Nielsen’s dreams to find Deadpool talking to Don Norman about how much they love The Princess Bride while failing to open a door.

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3 Reasons Why Companies are Hiring Business Analysts | Analyst Catalyst Blog | IIBA

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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VNSG Analytics Day Top Trends

Timo Elliott

Here’s a quick video I put together for the top four analytics trends I talked about at the recent VNSG (SAP Netherlands User Group) Analytics event in Utrecht’s railway museum: Embedded Analytics, Augmented Analytics, Experience Analytics, and… (as ever and always) DATA! And here are the slides : I hope to find the time to write up these trends in more detail in the near future!

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Big Data For Instagram: Using Data To Perfect Your Instagram Storyboard

Smart Data Collective

Do you want to create Instagram stories like a pro, but don’t know how to go about it? You have come to the right page because we are going to discuss how you create the storyboard for Instagram stories. The good news is that big data has made it easier than ever to create powerful Instagram content. How Big Data is Making Instagram Stories More Effective.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Business Intelligence Software for All Users!

ElegantJ BI

Understanding Business Intelligence Will Help You Achieve Your Goals! What is business intelligence? It is quite simple, really. Business intelligence is ‘intelligence’ about ‘business’. Having said that, we cannot really presume that ‘intelligence’ is simply data. Data on its own tells us little and can, at times, actually confuse the very issue you are trying to understand.

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8 Examples Of Financial Reports You Can Use For Daily, Weekly, And Monthly Reports

Data Pine

Regardless of your sector or industry, it’s likely that your financial department is the beating heart of your entire operation. Without financial fluency, it’s difficult for an organization to thrive, which means that keeping your monetary affairs in order is essential. As a business, you need the reliability of frequent financial reports to gain a better grasp of your financial status, both current and future.

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Competitive Benchmarking 101: A User Researcher’s Guide

Userzoom

So much more than carving your name onto a bench (also, don’t make marks on benches). As part of our UX 101 education series , where we discuss the different types of studies and research methodologies you can use with the UserZoom platform, we’d like to introduce our readers to the exciting world of competitive benchmarking! What is competitive benchmarking?

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Connecting Data Analytics with Business Analysis | Analyst Catalyst Blog | IIBA

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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2019 Data Summer Reading List

Juice Analytics

“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” Sam Keen Now that Summer is here it’s a great time to recharge our batteries. Whether it’s a much needed vacation, a nap in the hammock, hours watching soccer games or curling up with a good book. Here are the books that made it onto the Juice Summer reading list this year. We’ve started some of them, but plan to get through the entire list by Labor Day.

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How To Find And Resolve Blind Spots In Your Data

Smart Data Collective

There’s a growing number of tools that you can use to analyze data for a business. But you may not be overly confident in the results if you don’t take the data’s blind spots into account. There’s no single way to do that, but we’ll look at some possibilities here. The first thing to keep in mind is that a blind spot generally represents an “unknown unknown.” In other words, it’s a factor you didn’t take into account because you didn’t

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Take Tally to Mobile with Tally Mobile App!

ElegantJ BI

Tally Mobile App Brings All the Power of Tally ERP to Smart Phones! Today’s businesses depend on mobile solutions to make the most of resources, improve software ROI and productivity and keep business users informed while they are on the road, so they can make informed decisions and positively impact the bottom line. The Tally® ERP solution is a desktop application that is used by many businesses to manage accounting tasks and other financial related tasks.

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Take Advantage Of Modern CEO Dashboards – Examples And Templates

Data Pine

“The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” – Faye Wattleton. For any business to succeed, it needs purpose, direction, and the resources to grow as well as adapt to the landscape surrounding it – which is why strong leadership is essential. As a CEO, you’re responsible for overseeing every aspect of your business, from the people and the internal culture all the way through to key sales, marketing, and financial strategies.

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Data-Backed Secrets for Minimizing Discounts & Maximizing ROI Post-Holiday

Use data to turn one-off holiday shoppers into repeat buyers and effortlessly drive more sales throughout the year. Our guide will give you an in-depth understanding of what triggers your customers to buy and breaks down campaign examples from leading B2C brands.

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Partnerships in Tech: The When, Why, and How

Sisense

Forming human relationships is one of the most basic and important skills we need to survive. We need relationships just like we need air to breathe. In fact, when we’re born we need skin contact immediately. That’s a pretty strong message from Mother Nature, don’t you think? It doesn’t stop there. From the beginning stages of our lives, we establish intricate relationships in school with our classmates, as well as at home with our families.

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BA Lens Now Exclusive to Members | Analyst Catalyst Blog | IIBA

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Your Data Story Needs More Than Data

Juice Analytics

Data stories use the techniques of traditional storytelling — narrative flow, context, structure — to guide audiences through data and offer flexibility to find insights relevant to them. Data may be the star, but your data story won’t cohere without a mix of additional ingredients. There are at least four things that you’ll want to incorporate into your data story that go beyond the data visualizations: 1.

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Is Big Data Helping To Solve Problems With Digital Calendars?

Smart Data Collective

Big data is changing our lives in many ways. Some of the ways data impacts us are much more subtle than others. One example is with digital calendars. A number of new data algorithms are being used to make digital calendars more effective. Big data is so important for event planning and preparation. A growing number of companies are using big data to plan their events more effectively.

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The Young BA

This article focuses on my experience starting as a customer service representative and working myself up to become a lead analyst in my organization. I did not start with many special skills or talents but I wanted to reflect on what did help me.