What Augmented Analytics Offers and Lacks

Augmented analytics automates data insight by utilizing machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) to automate data preparation and enable data sharing. This manipulation and presentation of data simplifies data to present clear results and provides access to sophisticated tools so business users can make day-to-day decisions with confidence. Tech Republic brought this interesting information to our attention in…

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Emerging Technologies Fighting COVID-19

The coronavirus health crisis has resulted in many changes. Changes in our we work, how we educate our children and how the healthcare system learns simultaneously with treating patients. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have adapted labs and lessons learned from treating other diseases to help check the virus and save lives. This…

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Insights Into Big Data

Big data analytics is the often complex and arduous process of examining large and varied data sets to uncover information, such as hidden patterns, unknown correlations, market trends and customer preferences. Analyzing this data can help organizations make better informed business decisions, develop more agile marketing strategies, and ultimately increase their bottom line. This interesting topic came to us from…

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Benefits of Predictive Analytics

Artificial intelligence (AI) has excited many a business leader. The idea of predictive analytics helping to drive their organization’s efficiency and future is alluring. There are certainly benefits of an end-to-end data engineering approach to achieving clean data, but there are also challenges.  Information Age brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “The…

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Analytics for Entrepreneurs

Operating in the business world is a gamble for everyone. For entrepreneurs, the decision making is even more important and needs to be informed using solid data. This can happen through analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). Equities brought this interesting topic to us in their article, “Invisible Analytics and Embedded AI Are the Future of Data…

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Open Source of Today

Looking back at the recent decade and the dramatic changes there have been in the world of information technology, it is ironic to see which predictions came true and which came out of left field. IT World brought us this interesting news in their article, “How open source changed everything — again.” Open source is a…

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Analytics and Data

Big data is a term that describes the large volume of data – both structured and unstructured – that inundates a business on a day-to-day basis. It has been a popular topic for a while now. It is considered a business asset supporting the next eras of multi-cloud support, machine learning, and real-time analytics. But…

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Data Governance Has Never Been More Important

Done correctly, data governance can transform the way an organization manages and capitalizes on its data. However, because it spans a variety of people, processes, policies, and technologies data governance can be a daunting effort. The term data governance can have a variety of definitions. But once you start exploring, every explanation of the term…

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Analytics in Collaboration

According to research, a vast majority (94%) of large enterprises say data visualization and analytics are critical to their business growth and digital transformation. However, another study estimates business intelligence and analytics adoption hovers around 30% of all employees and given that staff are making decisions daily in response to customers’ needs, it is a missed opportunity not to…

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Looking Forward

Who wouldn’t want to predict the future if they could? Besides the financial benefits that could be realized, for those of us who hate surprises it would be helpful to prepare and plan ahead. In the world of information science, there is a crystal ball. It is called predictive modeling. A commonly used statistical technique to…

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