November, 2020

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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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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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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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10 Steps to Transition from Your Current Job to an Amazing BA Career | 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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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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The Product Strategy Cycle

Roman Pichler

Enter the Cycle. Traditionally, strategy and execution are often viewed as separate, sequential pieces of work that are carried out by different people. For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it. But as long as innovation, change, and risk are present, this approach is ineffective.

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

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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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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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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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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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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Consequences

Timo Elliott

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

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The Modified Design Sprint: Simplifying a Tried and True Brainstorming Method

BA Times

Facilitating team brainstorming is a key skill for BAs in product development. How can we generate innovative, divergent, and executable ideas that meet customer needs?

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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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Self-Serve Data Preparation: It Really IS for You!

ElegantJ BI

Please Don’t Make Me Think About It: Self-Serve Data Prep Really IS for Everyone! If you are an average business professional, your eyes probably roll back in your head when you hear terms like data preparation, data extraction, transformation and loading, otherwise known as ETL, or any other term that makes you think of a pile of rubble you have to sift through to find what you need.

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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 Impact of DevOps in 2021 | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

In the past, developing and deploying software was done in weeks or even days. Now, with the advent of agile and DevOps, the software is produced and released every day. IT has to accept these changes to succeed in today's dynamic technology environment and learn to embrace them. Developing and deploying software requires much planning, and it's also.

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10 Spectacular Big Data Sources to Streamline Decision-making

Smart Data Collective

The market for big data is surging. It is expected to be worth $274 billion within the next two years. The increasing demand for big data is not surprising. We are living at a time when there is heavy reliance on big data, which often comes from online information. Due to the benefits online data provides, you should strive even more to find or share factual information.

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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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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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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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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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Self-Serve Data Preparation: It Really IS for You!

ElegantJ BI

Please Don’t Make Me Think About It: Self-Serve Data Prep Really IS for Everyone! If you are an average business professional, your eyes probably roll back in your head when you hear terms like data preparation, data extraction, transformation and loading, otherwise known as ETL, or any other term that makes you think of a pile of rubble you have to sift through to find what you need.

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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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Critical Importance of a VPN in the Age of Data Breaches

Smart Data Collective

Internet technology has become far more important than ever before. As our dependence on the Internet grows, it is becoming more important than ever to think about web security. The growing number of data leaks that we see each day is a testament of this. The number of exposed records has increased at an alarming rate. In 2018, over 500 million personal records were exposed with data leaks.

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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.