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Advanced Analytics: What Do I Need to Know About R?
Your organization doesn’t have to be a Google, Facebook or Shell Oil to have a use for large volumes of data, like those that are sitting in a data warehouse or publically available online. Unfortunately, cleaning and aggregating this data to create intelligible...
Advanced Analytics: What Do I Need to Know About Python?
Although it has been around since 1991, the Python language is currently in its heyday; in fact it ranked as one of the most popular programming languages last year (both in Stack Overflow’s yearly developer survey and the number of Github pull requests.) It ranks...
HR Has a Recruitment Problem. Analytics Can Help.
Ask your favorite HR person and they’ll most likely tell you that far and away their biggest challenge is recruiting talent, especially for technical roles. Their dilemma: organizations today have deep investments in software, but face a shortfall of staff with the...
Data Mashing: A Lens on Enterprise Data
“Data mashing” seems like a poor description of a process. You are not bludgeoning the data. Instead, data mashing is more like using a kaleidoscope – mixing together different types of data and seeing what it looks like through a single lens. The difference is that,...
The Key to Analytics Success is in the Next Cubicle
Citizen Data Scientists Are the Critical Staff You’ve Already Hired For the past two decades, web development has been a bottomless reservoir of employment for developers, especially those with skills like Javascript. But the next decade belongs to data science. Case...
The Power of Cognitive Computing
Why Do I Need to Know About Cognitive Computing? AI and machine learning are propelling the next generation of software. In fact, it’s not hard to envision a near future where these technologies, collectively known as cognitive computing, become “must-haves” in LOB...
A “Single Pane of Glass” Dashboard
The concept of a “single pane of glass” dashboard was a topic of a recent post by SQL Server Central blogger Steve Jones. This is originally a DevOps concept, the idea being that when you work using a continuous development/deployment model, you need one single source...
Employee Cynicism and New Applications
Employees are already overburdened, so asking them to learn a new application can be futile. Or, employees are afraid of an unfamiliar interface, so they’ll push back against adopting it. Perhaps you’ve encountered these explanations from people in your organization....
PII Data and Data Masking
Organizations are legally required to ensure that their employees’ personal information remains confidential. Compliance can be as simple a process as shredding paper forms, but more likely it involves securing data held in computer systems; for example, payroll or...
Autonomous Databases and the Future of DBAs
Given enough data and the right algorithms, a vehicle can drive itself better than a human can. That is the collective reasoning of more than forty corporations currently funding self-driving vehicle projects. Oracle thinks it can do the same with its databases....
3 Features You Need from Your BI Tool
Few events in history come close to matching the enormity of the Big Data explosion. According to industry research, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day. That's approximately 2.5 exabytes. For perspective, if every word ever spoken were quantified in...
Is Your Business “Intelligent”?
The term Business Intelligence has been around since the 1920s, but gained prominence from the 1950s onwards. The advent of data processing mainframe systems and early DBMS allowed for data to be stored, processed and reported. Interest in BI revolutionized in the...
Advanced Analytics: What Do I Need to Know About R?
Your organization doesn’t have to be a Google, Facebook or Shell Oil to have a use for large volumes of data, like those that are sitting in a data warehouse or publically available online. Unfortunately, cleaning and aggregating this data to create intelligible...
Advanced Analytics: What Do I Need to Know About Python?
Although it has been around since 1991, the Python language is currently in its heyday; in fact it ranked as one of the most popular programming languages last year (both in Stack Overflow’s yearly developer survey and the number of Github pull requests.) It ranks...
HR Has a Recruitment Problem. Analytics Can Help.
Ask your favorite HR person and they’ll most likely tell you that far and away their biggest challenge is recruiting talent, especially for technical roles. Their dilemma: organizations today have deep investments in software, but face a shortfall of staff with the...
Data Mashing: A Lens on Enterprise Data
“Data mashing” seems like a poor description of a process. You are not bludgeoning the data. Instead, data mashing is more like using a kaleidoscope – mixing together different types of data and seeing what it looks like through a single lens. The difference is that,...
The Key to Analytics Success is in the Next Cubicle
Citizen Data Scientists Are the Critical Staff You’ve Already Hired For the past two decades, web development has been a bottomless reservoir of employment for developers, especially those with skills like Javascript. But the next decade belongs to data science. Case...
The Power of Cognitive Computing
Why Do I Need to Know About Cognitive Computing? AI and machine learning are propelling the next generation of software. In fact, it’s not hard to envision a near future where these technologies, collectively known as cognitive computing, become “must-haves” in LOB...
A “Single Pane of Glass” Dashboard
The concept of a “single pane of glass” dashboard was a topic of a recent post by SQL Server Central blogger Steve Jones. This is originally a DevOps concept, the idea being that when you work using a continuous development/deployment model, you need one single source...
Employee Cynicism and New Applications
Employees are already overburdened, so asking them to learn a new application can be futile. Or, employees are afraid of an unfamiliar interface, so they’ll push back against adopting it. Perhaps you’ve encountered these explanations from people in your organization....
PII Data and Data Masking
Organizations are legally required to ensure that their employees’ personal information remains confidential. Compliance can be as simple a process as shredding paper forms, but more likely it involves securing data held in computer systems; for example, payroll or...
Autonomous Databases and the Future of DBAs
Given enough data and the right algorithms, a vehicle can drive itself better than a human can. That is the collective reasoning of more than forty corporations currently funding self-driving vehicle projects. Oracle thinks it can do the same with its databases....
3 Features You Need from Your BI Tool
Few events in history come close to matching the enormity of the Big Data explosion. According to industry research, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day. That's approximately 2.5 exabytes. For perspective, if every word ever spoken were quantified in...
Is Your Business “Intelligent”?
The term Business Intelligence has been around since the 1920s, but gained prominence from the 1950s onwards. The advent of data processing mainframe systems and early DBMS allowed for data to be stored, processed and reported. Interest in BI revolutionized in the...
