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10 Steps to Transition from Your Current Job to an Amazing BA Career | Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Introduction to Machine Learning: A Beginner's Guide | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Gone are those days when we had to tell machines what to do to solve problems. With the emergence of machine learning technologies, computers can find solutions to problems by identifying specific patterns in data sets. Automatic analysis of hidden patterns and trends makes things easier for organizations to predict in advance a range of business-c.

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Will COVID-19 Show the Adaptability of Machine Learning in Loan Underwriting?

Smart Data Collective

Machine learning is transforming the financial sector more than anybody could have ever predicted. This technology might be more important than ever during the pandemic, as financial institutions discover that many traditional protocols aren’t nearly as effective. One of the most significant changes brought by advances in machine learning is with the loan underwriting process.

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An Equipment List For Virtual Presentations In An Office Or Home Studio

Timo Elliott

I have had several requests from people who want to set up some equipment for professional presentations at virtual events—a home or office studio that enables you to present live as if you were a TV weather person: Here’s a list of most of what I use (with some links, mostly to the French Amazon site where I purchased most of it — I live in Paris).

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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BA Productivity Tip: Manage Those IFRAs

BA Times

As a business analyst, it often feels like we spend our lives spinning plates. We have to balance a whole range of tasks, meetings and other stakeholder interactions often in very tight timelines.

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How to Get Started in Your Business Analysis Career | Analyst Catalyst Blog

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The Top Things to Know Now About SEO | Simplilearn webinar starts 07-10-2020 15:30

Simplilearn

With the acceleration of Digital Transformation during the pandemic, digital marketing has become more important than ever. As a digital marketer, you need to keep on top of the latest developments in SEO - especially as search providers continually change their platforms. Here are the most important things for you to know now about SEO, so you can.

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Deciphering The Seldom Discussed Differences Between Data Mining and Data Science

Smart Data Collective

The Data Scientist profession today is often considered to be one of the most promising and lucrative. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the number of data scientists will increase from 32,700 to 37,700 between 2019 and 2029. Unfortunately, despite the growing interest in big data careers, many people don’t know how to pursue them properly.

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Consequences

Timo Elliott

“They seem to be missing…” “Well, did you look? When did you last see them?

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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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10 Steps to Transition from Your Current Job to an Amazing BA Career

BA Times

Over the years, professionals wanting to pursue a career in business analysis have been seeking my advice.

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Maker Tools for Information Workers

Juice Analytics

We are makers in our work. Whether designing a marketing campaign, creating a presentation, or building a spreadsheet, information workers spend a lot of time creating stuff. And we want better tools to do all that making. How far have these tools come? In some cases, the complex desktop tools have been replaced by nimble, web-based (and often less feature-rich) options.

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Paving the Road to Certification | Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Upskilling and Reskilling Strategies to Create Future-Proof Careers | Simplilearn webinar starts 24-11-2020 15:30

Simplilearn

Even as the Pandemic weighed down many economies, it accelerated digital transformation. Edutech, fintech, ecommerce, Tech Pharma, and the gaming industry were among the industries to benefit from growing public acceptance of digitalization and the rise in user numbers. This has created a growing demand for skilled workers in these industries. As A.

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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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5 Reasons Technical Support is Essential in the Big Data Age

Smart Data Collective

In an age where data plays a fundamental role in every aspect of our lives, it’s relatively simple to find the answers that we need. You can conduct a Google query and you’ll quickly find thousands of helpful webpages, YouTube videos, and blogs dealing with the issue. Big data has made it possible to store information on virtually everything. Unfortunately, the growing reliance on big data hasn’t come without a cost.

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Choosing the Right Testing Metrics

Stickyminds

Testing always looks to provide more information in order to have less uncertainty and better control over risk, but that information has to be analyzed carefully. .

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Constructive Conflict Is Better Than False Agreement

BA Times

Over a decade ago, I was in a workshop with a range of different stakeholders.

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What Are Citizen Data Scientists and Can They Improve the Quality of Business Intelligence?

ElegantJ BI

What Are Citizen Data Scientists? Citizen Data Scientists represent a new breed of business analysts – a group of individuals with diverse business responsibilities and training, who wield sophisticated analytical tools, and employ complex methods of analysis to improve business results – all without the training or assistance of data scientists or IT team members.

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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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The Importance of Cybersecurity in 2020 | Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Business Analytics Basics: A Beginner’s Guide | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Whether it's a small business or a large corporation, its success depends on providing customers with what they need. Understanding what consumers want is even more important in today's business environment, and relying on assumptions is a recipe for failure. In recent years, the popularity of business analytics is growing rapidly around the world be.

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An Important Guide To Unsupervised Machine Learning

Smart Data Collective

We’re living in an era of digital switch-over with only one constant – evolve. And that digital transformation is being introduced by high-tech solutions. Hence, it comes as no surprise that mundane business tasks are being completely taken over by tech advancements. Machines, artificial intelligence (AI), and unsupervised learning are reshaping the way businesses vie for a place under the sun.

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Encapsulation vs Orchestration: Dependencies in Agile

Leading Agile

Dependencies will stop Agility dead in its tracks. In the presence of dependencies, you’re never going to achieve the level of Agility you desire—unless you do something about them. So you only have two choices when it comes to this. You can either encapsulate the dependencies within the team or within the value stream, or you can orchestrate them. Another way to say this is that you either must break the dependencies, or you must manage them.

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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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Taking responsibility for the outcome

BA Times

As a Junior Business Analyst who’s about to go into a meeting to report on why our latest deployment into production had so many bugs –.

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What Are Citizen Data Scientists and Can They Improve the Quality of Business Intelligence?

ElegantJ BI

What Are Citizen Data Scientists? Citizen Data Scientists represent a new breed of business analysts – a group of individuals with diverse business responsibilities and training, who wield sophisticated analytical tools, and employ complex methods of analysis to improve business results – all without the training or assistance of data scientists or IT team members.

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Business Analysis and Technology Go Hand-in-Hand | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Digital Marketing Salary Guide 2021 | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

We live in a digitally connected world where over 7.7 billion people access the internet and social media. This rapid spread of the internet and people surfing online, has redefined the way and manner marketing is carried out, it is safe to say that opportunities for digital marketing professionals have exploded. Digital marketing is comparatively. Read More.

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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.