Bloomberg’s best practice for data annotation
Bloomberg processes hundreds of billions of pieces of data from the global capital markets every day. To make it available for automated analytics, it first needs to be annotated. The experience it has built up from doing this has been pulled into a best practice guide to help other machine learning projects. Legal analyst Tina Tseng talked to DataIQ about this critical step in preparing structured and unstructured data.
DataIQ Leaders briefing – Talent management in a time of crisis
The start of the academic year each Autumn is usually a critical juncture for employers. Data and analytics departments have recently joined in this milk round activity, but with many universities putting the entire 2020/21 academic year onto a virtual footing with remote tuition, the usual pathways for recruitment appear blocked. A roundtable held in October 2020 explored whether conventional approaches to building talent at the top of the funnel are still relevant in the circumstances
DataIQ Leaders briefing – “Are we earning our place at the table?”
One of the longest-running discussions around data is exactly how to value the contribution it makes to a business. Hard metrics can be difficult to define and put in place, as a recent DataIQ Leaders roundtable revealed. This briefing note considers some of the ways in which members are trying to prove the return on investment they deliver
Data assets and data culture
Download this exclusive research by DataIQ and find out which organisations have achieved full alignment between their data and business strategies and how this relates to their data literacy and digital transformation programmes.
When data management meets crisis management
As businesses deal with the consequences of the global pandemic, disrupted data strategies are the reality for many leaders. Instead of supporting growth, many have had to plan cutbacks or even the wholesale closure of a business. James Miller reflects on his own experience of emergency planning.
Start here: Now implement your data strategy
Getting your data strategy signed-off by the organisation is a great moment. But it is not the end of the task – it is actually where the work really begins. Lisa Allen of DAMA (UK) identifies the critical steps you need to take next.
Walking the tightrope: 5 tips for writing a data strategy
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.
Mutual Friends: Aligning business strategy and data strategy
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.
Recognising the business benefits of winning an award
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.
Data storytelling is critical to getting the Covid-19 message across
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.
4 steps that establish a data-driven company culture
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.
Four principles to balance personalisation and data protection
Talk of contact tracing apps to tackle COVID-19 serves to highlight the difficult balance between using data to personalise services and robust data protection. Whether your organisation is involved in building these solutions or not, Craig Suckling of IAG Loyalty suggests there are four principles to keep you on the right side of your customers.
Seven steps to building an analytics community
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.
DataIQ Leaders briefing – Data integration: How to avoid being blocked by technology
According to recent research carried out by DataIQ, around two-thirds of organisations (63.6%) are pursuing customer data integration as part of their digital transformation. Yet only one in ten (10.2%) have achieved this nirvana. This whitepaper considers the challenges of enterprise-wide data integration across the data estate.
Why building an analytics community is key to data-driven transformation
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.
DataIQ Leaders briefing – Maintaining momentum in mature data and analytics functions
Momentum is an important aspect of the task facing any chief data officer (CDO) or chief analytics officer (CAO) as they embed this function into their organisation. But if the data office and analytics function has been slow in bringing significant benefits and transformation to the organisation, it can face deep challenges from the business. This white paper looks at some of the root causes and how to address them.
Lyndsay Weir – Keeping quiet as a female leader
Lyndsay Weir is global data and analytics manager at Nestlé. At the Women in Data conference in November, she was named as one of the new list of female industry role models, the 20 in Data and Tech. She told DataIQ how being a female leader and role model can be done in a quiet way.
Data champions are the backbone of data culture
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
Business decisions based less on trust and more on truth
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.
DataIQ Leaders briefing – 7 tips for building the talent funnel
If you are the manager or leader of a data and analytics function, then chances are you spend a lot of your time looking at CVs. Either to grow the size of your teams or to replace practitioners who have left, the reality of recruitment in this space is of constant activity and a challenging environment. This whitepaper summarises tactics that were shared at a recent DataIQ Leaders breakfast briefing.