Tag Archives: big data

Keep it simple, stupid

Keep it simple, stupid

The jargon used when discussing business analytics can sound complicated and intimidating. Evan Stubbs, author of The Value of Business Analytics, explains the value in keeping it simple.

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Big data: More than meets the eye

Big Data: More than meets the eye

Hype aside, big data is becoming one of the most important elements of business analytics and is leading the charge to better the understanding of oft overlooked relationships.

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Analytics success at McDonald’s is a team effort

McDonald's is anything but average with analytics

All too often analytics projects are confined to one poor soul, or a few people in an isolated department. Not so at McDonald’s. Mike Cramer, McDonald’s Director of Operations Research for Worldwide Restaurant Innovation, explains.

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Speed dating, I mean mentoring, at SAS Executive Conference

Shannon Heath, SAS

Just as you may view first date, does big data have you paralyzed? Are you stumped by the right thing to say? Get it all under control at the SAS Global Forum Executive Conference with a speed mentoring session sponsored by SAS and Teradata.

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More big data myths according to Phil Simon

Phil Simon

Phil Simon, author of Too Big to Ignore: The Business Case for Big Data, discusses more myths of collecting and analyzing data.

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Big data myths according to Phil Simon

Phil Simon

Phil Simon, author of Too Big to Ignore: The Business Case for Big Data, discusses the myths of collecting and analyzing data.

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How do you extract big knowledge from big data?

Jay Liebowitz, Orkand Endowed Chair in Management and Technology, University of Maryland University College

Partly through analytics, according to this article. Read more on the new data scientist, business analyst and movements in academia to support data-intensive industries like cybersecurity, finance, healthcare and others.

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What is predictive analytics?

What is predictive analytics

In the age of big data, organizations are moving from traditional analytics/reporting solutions that provide a snapshot of the past (hindsight) to solutions that provide an accurate picture of the present and a prediction of future trends (foresight). Enter predictive analytics. Read more about the approach in this article.

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Which bits are the important bits?

Jon Briggs PBLS 2013

Jon Briggs, Broadcast Journalist, gives some perspective on big data and highlights a few influential speakers at The Premier Business Leadership Series 2013 in Amsterdam.

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The big data advantage

Carl Farrell, Executive Vice President, SAS Americas

Canadian businesses are at a crossroads. Carl Farrell, Executive Vice President, SAS Americas, tells why in this article.

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