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TDWI research indicates that if users stuck to their plans around predictive analytics, adoption would be at 75–80% versus the 35–40% we currently see. Predictive analytics is on the cusp of widespread adoption. Many organizations are excited to make use of the power of predictive analytics (including machine learning) because they understand the…
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Since joining TDWI about six years ago, I have been following and reporting on our salary survey. The report quantifies and interprets the compensation, roles, responsibilities, skills, and experience of individual BI and IT professionals. It also provides detailed profiles of the 10 most common BI and data warehousing roles, examining age, gender, education, salary…
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My colleague Dave Stodder and I recently lead a Webinar in conjunction with our best practices report about becoming a data-driven organization. Audience questions included several about self-service. In particular, attendees were interested in how to make self-service more accessible to managers and leaders in their organization. Let me set the stage for self-service analytics…
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2018 will be the year of the three As: AI, Automation, and Advancing analytics skills In 2017, advanced analytics maintained its momentum in the enterprise. Open source technologies such R and Python gained ground. Other technologies such as machine learning continued to pique interest. Use of the cloud become more mainstream. TDWI expects these technologies…
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Dave Stodder and I just finished writing our 4Q Best Practices Report on “What it Takes to Be Data-Driven: Technologies and Practices for Becoming a Smarter Organization.” What struck me in analyzing the data for the report is that although organizations have embraced BI and analytics, they still have a journey in front of them…
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As a female and a feminist who has worked in male-dominated fields for most of my career, what immediately caught my eye when reading the most recent TDWI Salary Survey report was the on-going pay disparity between women and men in BI. According to TDWI research, men continue to out-earn women in the BI field,…
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What does it take to achieve analytics maturity? Earlier this week, Dave Stodder and I hosted a webcast with a panel of vendor experts from Cloudera, Microstrategy, and Tableau. These three companies are all sponsors of the Analytics Maturity Model; an analytics assessment tool that measures where your organization stands relative to its peers in…
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Today, I participated in a webinar with Actuate on the skills needed for business analysts to perform predictive modeling. This is a hot topic and there were hundreds of participants on the call. In my part of the presentation, I outlined some major trends in predictive analytics (including the fact that the tools are much easier…
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My new (and first!) TDWI Best Practices Report was published a few weeks ago. It is called Predictive Analytics for Business Advantage. In it, I use the results from an online survey together with some qualitative interviews to discuss the state of predictive analytics, where it is going, and some best practices to get there. You…
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