Tag: governance

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: andrea-braida; Justin Saul is Senior Director of Technology at A Place for Mom, Inc. (APFM). Justin’s career began in the start-up space, where he founded several successful businesses. He joined You’ve Got Leads—a division of APFM that delivers web-based relationship management solutions for the senior care industry—as a Director of Operations focused on strategic IT projects, and then moved into running all technology for the company’s start-up divisions. Justin has considerable breadth and depth of experience in building technical teams, architectures and processes.  It’s no secret that most successful ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Bob Carpenter. It was another productive week in Stan land. The big news is that Jonathan Auerbach reports that A team of Columbia students (mostly Andrew’s, including myself) recently won first place in a competition predicting elementary school enrollment. I heard 192 entered, and there were 5 finalists….Of course, we used Stan (RStan specifically). … Thought it might be Stan news worthy. I’d say that’s newsworthy. Jon also provided a link to the “challenge” page, a New York City government sponsored “call for innovations”: Enhancing School Zoning Efforts by Predicting Population Change. They took home a US$20K ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. I’ve written before on the importance of people sharing data as broadly as possible in an organization. A company may have hundreds, or even thousands, of people with “analyst” in their job titles, but if you keep access to data centralized, you’re also keeping the capacity for innovation centralized — and limited. At the same time, simply opening up the data floodgates to your workforce, without a solid strategy, will create more confusion than success. The better approach is to package up the complexity into accessible tools — analytical applications — to ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data Hub Blog; Author: rob-thomas; Many of today’s top business performers successfully leverage a discipline – data science. Machine learning is one major way to apply data science and with machine learning, the more data we feed in, the better it performs. However, much of the world’s value data cannot be found on the Internet. It sits behind a firewall.Today, IBM and Hortonworks made an exciting announcement that brings data science, machine learning and deep learning to all data, no matter where it resides. The partnership between the two companies will be designed to deliver an integrated and ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data Hub Blog; Author: andrea-braida; In any successful modern organization, analytics is likely to play a central role in helping decision-makers design and execute effective business strategies. At IBM, as we work with clients across the globe, we’re seeing ever-increasing levels of maturity and confidence in data-driven business models.However, analytics technologies and practices continue to develop and evolve at a rapid pace—which means that it’s necessary for even the most mature analytics adopters to take a step back, challenge their current perspectives, and engage with some fresh thinking. Regularly reviewing your assumptions and revising your strategy is ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data Hub Blog; Author: rob-thomas; We’re living through the third great revolution in modern business. First came economies of scale, which we harnessed with the Industrial Revolution, the assembly line, and the creation of global markets. Second was network effects, seen most obviously in the rise of the Internet and the Web. Third—right now—we are entering the age of data. At our Fast Track Your Data event, coming up on June 22 in Munich, Germany, we’ll help you become one of the winners in this revolution.  Disrupt Yourself before Others Disrupt You We’ve been doing serious analytics with ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data Hub Blog; Author: oliver-clark; Many governments, companies and organizations are looking to capitalize on what makes them unique in the modern era. Their data. Using machine learning and data science, the groups can harness a wealth of actionable insights, granted they know what they are looking for. These actionable insights can lead to competitive advantages and help drive business decisions. How do you accomplish this? What do you need to look for? How do you share the insights you find with the people who need them the most? These questions and more will be explored during ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: rob-thomas; If you joined us or tuned in for IBM’s Fast Track Your Data broadcast from Munich last week, you heard us talk about the history of cars – a most appropriate location for the discussion. After all, the first car – the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, which looked like a large, rickety tricycle – was built in Germany in 1885.  But it wasn’t until Henry Ford and the assembly line over twenty years later that the automobile was advanced enough to gain mass appeal – and transform the world. We’re now at a similar defining moment ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: marc-haber; A decade ago, information governance was dictated and enacted by a select group of people. Today, while the principles of information governance are largely owned by the same select group of people, everyone has a hand and shared responsibility in the enactment and fulfillment of governance. Whether it is through quality assessment, monitoring and reviewing usage, adherence to policies and rules or engagement on the annotation and structuring of data. The data owner, architect or developer are usually most familiar with this information, and are therefore responsible for ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: nancy-kopp; No matter what site you search, it’s seems to us that self-service data is a top trend in the data market today. The knowledge and insight that we can obtain from data can truly be a secret weapon. But the challenge is making the data available while maintaining accountability and governance.In the early days of data warehousing and business intelligence we advised  businesses on the value of data but that value was limited to only a few key analysts, quants and executives. It’s a game changer if you ... Read More