Smart Data Collective

JUNE 17, 2019

Big data is changing the nature of the world we live in. It has created a number of new forms of smart technology, which are simplifying our lives in wonderful ways. The classic example is with smart homes. You can probably remember watching movies about smart houses on the Disney Channel and other networks over the past 30 years. However, they are finally coming to live, largely due to new big data technology.

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Timo Elliott

JUNE 21, 2019

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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Analyst Catalyst Blog

JUNE 20, 2019

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ElegantJ BI

JUNE 19, 2019

Encourage Data Literacy and Achieve Results with Assisted Predictive Modeling! If you want to include predictive analytics and forecasting in your planning process, there are numerous analytical techniques and algorithms at your disposal. You may hire a data scientist or analyst to help you plan OR, if your organization wishes to provide analytical access to business users, you will want to implement a self-serve Advanced Analytics solution that incorporates all of the standard, comprehensive

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Smart Data Collective

JUNE 17, 2019

Online retailers are using machine learning solutions to deliver the highest level of service to their customers. They have found that big data makes it easier to personalize services and offer the highest value for the lowest cost. One of the best ways machine learning is helping online retailers is with new POS software applications. If you’re running an online store, you want a POS system that’s going to fit the needs of your business.

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Userzoom

JUNE 20, 2019

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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ElegantJ BI

JUNE 19, 2019

Encourage Data Literacy and Achieve Results with Assisted Predictive Modeling! If you want to include predictive analytics and forecasting in your planning process, there are numerous analytical techniques and algorithms at your disposal. You may hire a data scientist or analyst to help you plan OR, if your organization wishes to provide analytical access to business users, you will want to implement a self-serve Advanced Analytics solution that incorporates all of the standard, comprehensive

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Smart Data Collective

JUNE 17, 2019

Big data is changing the nature of app development in several major ways. Some of the new practices include: Developing a strategy for aggregating consumer data. Ensuring the app is compliant with GDPR and other data privacy protocols. Integrating your monetization strategy into your new app. Since big data has increased the complexity of app development, you need a clearly outlined strategy.

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Data Pine

JUNE 18, 2019

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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Juice Analytics

JUNE 16, 2019

“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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ElegantJ BI

JUNE 19, 2019

Encourage Data Literacy and Achieve Results with Assisted Predictive Modeling! If you want to include predictive analytics and forecasting in your planning process, there are numerous analytical techniques and algorithms at your disposal. You may hire a data scientist or analyst to help you plan OR, if your organization wishes to provide analytical access to business users, you will want to implement a self-serve Advanced Analytics solution that incorporates all of the standard, comprehensive

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Smart Data Collective

JUNE 17, 2019

The fact is phrases like “analyst” and “computer engineer” mean different things today than they did just a generation ago. Hardly anybody needs reminding, but computers and information technology move incredibly quickly these days. Whether you’ve got both feet in this world on a professional basis, or you’re an out-of-practice programmer wondering where things are headed, or you’re a CEO or CTO and you want to know what kinds of tech are worth the inves

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Sisense

JUNE 19, 2019

What would it mean to you and your enterprise, if you could start getting useful business insights from your data in literally five days or less? As exciting as this seems, it’s actually just what a good business intelligence platform should be able to do for you. While BI projects can be short term or long term, straightforward or sophisticated, they should all bring actionable results as soon as possible.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 20, 2019

In this episode of SoundNotes, we tackle the question of whether or not it’s a good idea for the Development Team to limit the size of work brought into a Sprint. Many teams consider this to be a valuable practice during Sprint Planning or when creating a Definition of Ready. The goal is to make sure that the Development Team is not committing work into a Sprint that they cannot complete during the course of a Sprint.

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Phocas

JUNE 16, 2019

A budget is a financial plan for a defined period, normally a year. It greatly enhances the success of any undertaking. As the saying goes, "if you fail to plan then plan to fail." Budgets are an integral part of running any business efficiently and effectively. Aside from assigning resources, a budget can also aid in setting goals, measuring outcomes and planning for contingencies.

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Smart Data Collective

JUNE 19, 2019

Are you frustrated by an increase in the quantity of the data that your organization handles? Well, you aren’t alone! Many businesses globally are dealing with big data which brings along a mix of benefits and challenges. A report by China’s International Data Corporation showed that global data would rise to 175 Zettabyte by 2025. This growth means that you should prepare to handle even larger internal and external data soon.

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Domo

JUNE 18, 2019

Catherine Wong knows what it means to be successful. Since graduating from BYU and playing a significant role in building one of Utah’s most high-profile SaaS companies—Omniture—she has spent the better part of the past six years helping to create another one. Catherine doesn’t like to talk about her accomplishments. But on June 6, at a luncheon celebrating Utah Business magazine’s ‘CXO of the Year’ winners , Domo’s humble Chief Product Officer and EVP of Engineering did just that.

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Leading Agile

JUNE 17, 2019

Julianne Jones is a Principal Consultant with LeadingAgile. Her work includes interfacing with the leaders of high profile organizations and pairing with them in order to help Transform their organization to achieve true Business Agility. She’s also someone who believes in giving back to the Agile community. Recently, Julianne spent a week serving as the ScrumMaster for the volunteers that helped put on the 2019 North American Global Scrum Gathering.

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Phocas

JUNE 20, 2019

The art of venture capitalism (VC) is being transformed by the science of data analytics. Many startup investors are adopting data-driven decision-making to guide their lead sourcing and investments. The broad availability of data can help venture capitalists answer three crucial questions: Where are the best companies? Whether to invest? What KPIs should be set for the new company?

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Smart Data Collective

JUNE 18, 2019

Big data is a very important part of any digital marketing strategy. There are a number of reasons that machine learning, data analytics and Hadoop technology are changing SEO: Machine learning is becoming more widely used in search engine algorithms. SEOs that use machine learning can partially reverse engineer these algorithms. Big data helps SEO companies discover new linkbuilding opportunities and other venues for boosting their SERPs.

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Techcatch

JUNE 20, 2019

The requirement prioritization must be influenced by stakeholders needs, ensuring the maximum value is achieved. Continue reading on techcatch ».

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Mocrotool

JUNE 19, 2019

Sooner or later every organization that has had success working with Scrum in small projects will ask the question: Can this agile model be used for larger projects? And if so, what’s the best way to scale Scrum? In the last few years, frameworks for scaling agile management methods have gained a lot of attention. For a while now, the Scaled Agile Framework SAFe from Dean Leffingwell et al. (2011).

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Phocas

JUNE 18, 2019

With fingers in many pies, executives need to be smart with their time. Having a thorough insight into the many facets of your business is the key to ongoing success, and it doesn’t need to be complicated.

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Smart Data Collective

JUNE 20, 2019

. My colleagues and I at Smart Data Collective have written extensively about the benefits of big data in fields like marketing, hospitality and cybersecurity. We sometimes realize that we need to discuss the implications of big data for other fields as well. Technical writing is one field that is highly affected by advances in big data , but does not get discussed very often.

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Techcatch

JUNE 19, 2019

Read here 10 charges faced by Mark Zuckerberg’s company that is destroying its reputation. Continue reading on techcatch ».

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The Analyst Agency

JUNE 18, 2019

7 Ways to Use Social Media to Boost SEO By Steven Czyrny Currently, there are over 2.7 billion active social media users. With the potential to reach millions of users, social media is a powerful SEO and marketing tool. Social media SEO strategies are not to be confused with social ranking. The goal here is […]. The post 7 Ways to Use Social Media to Boost SEO appeared first on The Analyst Agency.

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

Actian

JUNE 18, 2019

Actian employees run for the gold.en donuts. All work and no play make for a hungry team according to Actian employees, or at least that’s what we found out during a local community event. With our new location nestled in the quiet little city of Round Rock, it was time to venture out and find new ways to embrace the new surrounds. We caught wind of a new tradition that was going to take place and it involved donuts soooo… what were we waiting for?

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Smart Data Collective

JUNE 20, 2019

. Future traders need to always be on their game. They should use the latest technology to have a competitive edge in the market. New technology has always been at the forefront of the financial industry. Computers have always played an important role in improving the efficiency of financial markets. In many ways, this has been beneficial. In other ways, it has created new risks.

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ElegantJ BI

JUNE 17, 2019

Whether we know it or not, we use Natural Language Processing every day. It makes it easier for us to interact with computers and software and allows us to perform complex searches and tasks without the help of a programmer, developer or analyst. In this, the last article in our three-article series we discuss Natural Language Processing and how it can benefit a business.

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Juice Analytics

JUNE 21, 2019

Our goal at Juice is to give everyone the ability to design and share compelling data stories. We're always inspired by the The New York Times information design group (and many other data story authors ). We want to bring this kind of data communication to every organization. However, we sometimes forget to share publicly all the cool stuff we can do.

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