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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ElegantJ BI

JUNE 20, 2019

Self Service Business Intelligence For Your Team! There are many benefits to self-service business intelligence and business analytics. Many (in fact most) enterprises are going to a self service BI environment that will increase the value of each team member by providing them with easy-to-use BI tools that they can leverage to make decisions, to understanding issues, to share data and plan for the future and to find business opportunities.

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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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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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ElegantJ BI

JUNE 20, 2019

Self Service Business Intelligence For Your Team! There are many benefits to self-service business intelligence and business analytics. Many (in fact most) enterprises are going to a self service BI environment that will increase the value of each team member by providing them with easy-to-use BI tools that they can leverage to make decisions, to understanding issues, to share data and plan for the future and to find business opportunities.

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Analyst Catalyst Blog

JUNE 20, 2019

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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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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 20, 2019

Self Service Business Intelligence For Your Team! There are many benefits to self-service business intelligence and business analytics. Many (in fact most) enterprises are going to a self service BI environment that will increase the value of each team member by providing them with easy-to-use BI tools that they can leverage to make decisions, to understanding issues, to share data and plan for the future and to find business opportunities.

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Analyst Catalyst Blog

JUNE 18, 2019

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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