Phil Simon is a speaker, journalist, and award winning author. He has written four books on technology, business, and Big Data. His latest is Too Big to Ignore: The Business Case for Big Data. In our latest Data Drive Thru we spoke to Phil about privacy, buzzwords, human intuition, and other hot topics around Big …
Let’s face it; the best way to make your organization more data-driven is to get the best analytics talent within your organization. However that is harder said than done. Invariably the attempt to improve the analytics talent pool leads to compromises like Reduction in scope of the vision, Delays in execution and Poor quality talent. …
Like many others, one year ago I was more of a spectator to the media hype surrounding the new buzz word “data scientist”. Being a data spying professional myself, I wanted to do a deep dive search and find out more about the origins of this newly evolved role. With some ground work, I have …
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Data specialists add value to virtually every department within an organization. In sales, they can analyse past and current sales to predict future demand, determine pockets of heavy demand and areas with high potential to target customers well. In the marketing department, they can analyse social media trends, effectiveness of campaigns and optimize return on …
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