In a thirty-year career (and counting), Helen Crooks has worked client-side, vendor-side and for a regulator, with data running as the golden thread across every post she has held.
Pursuing a digital transformation? Wondering how to respond to a rapidly-changing market and business environment? You need data skills and a good data leader, say Alan Jacobson of Alteryx.
Trusted data has become increasingly important to getting the best out of emerging technologies like AI, with competitive advantage depending on it. But climbing the AI ladder requires a positive focus on data governance. IBM’s Jay Limburn explains the steps it takes to reach the top.
DataOps can help deliver insights faster, with higher quality and resilience in the face of constant change. But there is a lot of confusion about what DataOps really means. Ted Friedman of Gartner outlines three value propositions that make sense of this approach.
How do you write a data strategy that will guide your organisation on the long journey towards a thriving data culture? Deborah Yates of DAMA UK offers five tips that can help you find the right balance.
Pursuing a digital transformation or becoming a data-driven business ought to mean placing the data strategy at the heart of the business strategy. That doesn’t always happen, which is why Nigel Turner suggests some ways to make sure business and data become better friends.
Crafting an award entry takes time, effort and then there are any costs associated, too. So is it really worth it? For past winners of the DataIQ Awards, it is a resounding yes.
How do you communicate a complex idea like an epidemic curve to people with minimal understanding of data? Alan D. Duncan of Gartner says the key is to use story telling techniques that make the subject engaging and emotional.
It’s more important than ever for companies to be able to make decisions based on data. But creating a data-driven culture isn’t simple. Zara Hawkins, data culture evangelist, Looker offers four suggestions for what to do to get it started.
Building a successful and lasting analytics community takes time and effort. Liz Matthews of Mango Solutions looks at some useful steps that organisations can take to establish and maintain a thriving collaborative approach.
Your organisation needs analysts and data scientists to thrive. They need a community to thrive. Liz Matthews of Mango Solutions explores why enabling them to network and share is critical to a successful practice.
For data-driven organisations, some of your most high-potential employees are those with strong data skills and a desire to share them with others. James Eiloart of Tableau explains how to identify and manage these data champions
Dun & Bradstreet, a business information data company that provides business credit reports, has over 330 million business records on its Data Cloud. Andy Crisp tells Toni Sekinah about his observation having completed 20 years in at Dun & Bradstreet and what it means to ‘own’ data at the company.
Cathy O’Neil is the author of the seminal book Weapons of Math Destruction, a book detailing how algorithms can deliver and amplify negative outcomes to the most vulnerable people in society. In a presentation at Teradata Universe, she talked about the concept of an ethical matrix and how these could objectively assess the positive and negative impact of algorithms on their stakeholders.
Electronics giant Siemens and blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan are both improving their data practices with a self-service analytics platform. Toni Sekinah hears from Jon Cajacob and Franky Stephenson who say that self-serve analytics is making their organisations more efficient and more productive, and the charity data is no longer in a ’shack’.
Data integration platforms collect, sort and transform data so it can be used for other business needs within an organisation. Valentino Baraldo of Diana Ecommerce Corporation and Mike Kiersey of Boomi told Toni Sekinah what benefits Diana gets from using integration platform Boomi and the other capabilities it has.
Reema Poddar of Teradata heads up the company’s technology and innovation office and looks after the information security. She tells Toni Sekinah about the women she admired in the technology and business worlds, what she does to make sure the customer comes first and how she encourages diversity in her organisation.
Dustin Spangler of Larry H Miller Sports and Entertainment has a huge variety of data to deal with as sports teams, a cycle race and a cinema chain, to name a few, fall under his company’s umbrella. He tells Toni Sekinah the challenges that he and his team face when dealing with that variety of data and how they went about choosing a cloud platform.
