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IT: Information Technology or Independent Thinking ... Interesting Thought!
Frank Buytendijk explains how philosophical thinking can enhance the performance of IT professionals.
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Advanced Analytics, Big Data and the Power of R: A Q&A Spotlight with David Rich, CEO of Revolution Analytics
David Rich, CEO of Revolution Analytics, is interviewed by Ron Powell. They discuss how Revolution Analytics provides the "rules, tools and school" to enable enterprises to gain the analytic power required for analyzing big data.
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Public Policy and π
Dr. Ramon Barquin explains how π and analytics are related, and encourages us to celebrate March 14 – National Pi Day.
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Hadoop Education is Vital to Big Data Analysis
Alex Buttery is a guest contributor to Richard Herschel's Education Channel. In this article, he describes the rapidly growing need for skilled individuals in big data analysis and emphasizes that the best way to develop these skills is through higher education - if universities would only supply the necessary classes.
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The Benefits of Commercial Analytics for Pharma: A Q&A with Peter Harbin of IMS Health
In this Spotlight, Ron Powell talks with Peter Harbin, senior principal at IMS Health, about analytics for the pharma industry. Peter details the changes that pharma companies are experiencing and explains the business benefits of analytics that provide actionable intelligence.
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The Top Myths of Predictive Analytics
Piyanka Jain dispels the top five myths of predictive analytics and explains how avoiding them can help your organization make better business decisions.
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Is Inmon's Data Warehouse Definition Still Accurate?
Ben Jiang examines Bill Inmon's definition of data warehouse to see if it is still accurate for data warehousing today.
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Healthcare Business Intelligence
Learn more about Laura Madsen's new book - Healthcare Business Intelligence: A Guide to Empowering Successful Data Reporting and Analytics .
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Workload-Driven Data Warehousing
Krish Krishnan breaks down the types of workloads in a standard data warehouse and then explains how isolating workloads helps you leverage the infrastructure.
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Big Data, Text and Relational Database Management Systems
Bill Inmon explains why textual ETL is necessary in the big data environment in order to make textual data fit for analytical processing.
