When Moneyball was released 20 years ago, audiences could not have imagined the strides data scientists would make in sports analytics in the years to come. In the latest UVA Data Points podcast, expert data scientists discuss how machine learning, wearable technology and computer vision are impacting the future of athlete health and sports analytics.
Report: Audit Industry Rising to the Data Analytics Challenge
December 6, 2022 by Leave a Comment
With businesses facing the strongest economic headwinds in years, the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (Chartered IIA) is urging internal auditors to embrace data analytics to navigate more risky, uncertain, and volatile times ahead. The new report, “Embracing data analytics: Ensuring internal audit’s relevance in a data-led world,” from Chartered IIA in partnership with AuditBoard aims to encourage internal audit to fully embrace data analytics and support the organization in doing the same.
With Sustainability Analytics, Big Data Can Save the World
November 22, 2022 by Leave a Comment
In this contributed article, Cashion “Cash” East, Director of Analytics for Higg, discusses how sustainability analytics requires a lot of data from many different sources. Some of that data already exists and is standardized, while other data is coming from new sources with no established standards. In order for companies to collect and organize ESG data in a meaningful and efficient way, the article recommends that companies start doing five things as they begin building out their sustainability insights platform.
Cinchy Study Details How Dataware Eliminates Data Integration and Revolutionizes Application Development and Analytics
October 27, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Cinchy, the dataware vendor that’s changing the way organizations work with data, released “The Rise of Dataware: An Integration-Minimizing Approach to Data,” a comprehensive analyst report that highlights a fundamental shift taking place in the data management sector. It focuses on a distinctive architectural approach that redefines the relationship between data and applications, and essentially eliminates the need for data integration as we know it.
Tomorrow’s Tech: What Does the Future of Analytics Look Like?
October 13, 2022 by 1 Comment
In this contributed article, Nitin Aggarwal, Vice President of Analytics and Data Science for The Smart Cube, suggests that when it comes to analytics tech, it’s all about speed to insight. People are trying to make sure data is available in almost real-time across the business, which takes a lot of processing power and investment in infrastructure. Then once that data is ingested, people want to make it faster.
Data Fusion and Analytics for Chief Investigators: Survey Report, August 2022
August 28, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Our friends over at Cognyte have a second survey on data fusion and analytics – this time for chief investigators. In their last survey, the 2022 IT leaders in the Data Fusion/Analytics Domain, the company spoke to CIOs and IT executives about their challenges and investment priorities for data fusion.
Using Advanced Analytics to Address Patient Risk and Deliver Value-based Care
August 27, 2022 by Leave a Comment
In this contributed article, Michael Dulin, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer, Gray Matter Analytics, suggests that to improve health outcomes and lower cost, the U.S. healthcare system must abandon fee for service models and provide comprehensive, proactive value-based care (VBC). High-quality data and advanced analytics that produce actionable insights into patients’ medical and social needs are an essential building block for this transition.
The Biggest Challenges When Adopting Data and AI Technologies
August 16, 2022 by Leave a Comment
In this contributed article, David Sweenor, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Alteryx, explains what it takes to create a data-driven culture in the office. Taking small, incremental steps to developing a data-centric work culture is the way to go in the adoption of data science, ML, AI, and other technologies. It requires significant planning, reviewing, and customized development, but will ensure a dominant edge to any organization that does it right.
Survey on Data Fusion & Analytics for Investigation
June 8, 2022 by Leave a Comment
To get greater insight into the technological challenges of fusing data for investigation purposes, and to learn from the CIO’s perspective what their wants and needs are in the market – our friends over at Cognyte went straight to the source. By speaking to 200 CIOs, CTOs, IT Directors, Directors of Technology and Heads of Artificial Intelligence, this new report Survey on Data Fusion & Analytics for Investigation takes the pulse of the industry in vital areas from investment priorities to cloud adoption, painting a clear picture of the state of data fusion for investigation purposes today.
Next-Generation of Tableau Brings Advanced Analytics and Automated Insights to Business Users
May 17, 2022 by Leave a Comment
oday, at the annual Tableau Conference, Salesforce introduced Tableau Cloud, the fast and easy way for customers to get the full value of Tableau at enterprise scale. The offering is the next generation of what was formerly known as Tableau Online and includes several new innovations to deliver intelligent, powerful and easy-to-use analytical tools to help anyone uncover insights, confidently make data-driven decisions, and create a single source of truth for all trusted data, accessible anytime, anywhere.
