Creating charts and info graphics can be time-consuming. But these tools make it easier. It’s often said that data is the new world currency, and the web is the exchange bureau through which it’s traded. As consumers, we’re positively swimming ...
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Investigating Data Scientists, their Skills and Team Makeup
adminA new survey of 490 data professionals from small to large companies, conducted by AnalyticsWeek in partnership with Business Over Broadway, provides a look into the field of data science. Download the free Executive Summary of the report, Optimizing your Data Science ...
Big Data Insights in Healthcare, Part I. Great Ideas Transcend Time
adminEarly adopters of technology are afforded many benefits, but they also run the risk of encountering many consequences. Seeing opportunity where others see risk, visionaries are able to adopt and adapt new technologies to their business to gain a competitive ...
Assess Your Data Science Expertise
adminWhat kind of a data scientist are you? Take the free Data Skills Scoring System Survey at http://pxl.me/awrds3 Companies rely on experts who can make sense of their data. Often referred to as data scientists, these people bring their specific skills ...
Review of Autoencoders (Deep Learning)
adminAn auto-encoder, autoassociator or Diabolo network is an artificial neural network used for learning efficient codings. The aim of an auto-encoder is to learn a compressed, distributed representation (encoding) for a set of data, typically for the purpose of dimensionality ...
One Word Can Speak Volumes About Your Company Culture
adminEmployee surveys are used to help manage the employee relationship. The questions in the employee survey are used to elicit employee responses that will be used to better understand how to improve that relationship. I crafted a new employee survey question ...
Why Is Big Data Is So Big In Health Care?
adminFar and away, the industry that pops up the most in discussions of big data is health care. It’s not surprising, if you think about it. Lots of disparate sources of data, much of it unstructured. An industry dying to ...
The Supply And Demand Of Data Scientists: What The Surveys Say
adminThe results of two surveys about data scientists were released this week, covering both the supply and demand sides of this hot new profession, “the sexiest job of the 21st Century.” On the demand side—the challenges of recruiting, training, and ...
Four Ways Big Data Can Improve Customer Surveys
adminCustomer surveys remain the primary source of customer feedback for many companies, despite the growth in adoption of other customer feedback sources like social media, call center conversations and emails. Customer surveys typically contain structured questions, asking customers to rate ...
The Strategic and Tactical Roles of Customer Surveys
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Customer experience (CX) improvement efforts rely heavily on the use of customer feedback. While there are many different methods of collecting this feedback, customer surveys remain a popular choice among CX professionals. In this post, I will discuss how senior executives ...