Leaders of Analytics

Business leaders are changing. Today, it’s not enough to be a strategic thinker and good people leader to be successful in the corporate world. Why? Modern business leaders are customer-centric and understand how to create a personalised customer experience using customer data. Modern busines...

Most of us take for granted that food is always available to us when we need it. Our local supermarkets have shelves stacked with produce from all corners of the world. Rarely do we stop to think that the items in our shopping carts have been on a long journey involving months of work by many peopl...

Professional sports have undergone a true data revolution over the last two decades. Today, all major sports teams, regardless of sports code, use analytics and data science to drive team performance, optimise game outcomes and scout young talent. Why has analytics become so popular in professi...

It’s no secret that data and analytics can be used to create a competitive advantage for almost any modern business. In fact, the customer data you capture in the course of doing business is one of the strongest differentiators between you and the competition. So, how do we build an organisatio...

Every company, regardless of size, is dealing with a barrage of data. In any typical organisation, there is more information on hand than we know how to use or manage. While every team in the organisation is screaming for analytics professionals to turn data into insight, a strong data and analyt...

In a recent conversation with data warehousing legend Bill Inmon, I learned about a new way to structure your data warehouse and self-service BI environment called the Unified Star Schema. The Unified Star Schema is potentially a small revolution for data analysts and business users as it allows ...

Modern analytics teams are central business functions directly and indirectly responsible for increasing revenue, reducing costs, optimising processes and improving customer and employee satisfaction.   But there are many obstacles along the way. Data needs collecting, projects need careful des...

There is so much to learn! If you’re anything like me, you’re overwhelmed by the number of books, articles, podcasts, online and offline courses, webinars and other training opportunities out there. Today, we’re not short of learning materials, but often lack the time and capacity to learn new ...

An estimated 80 to 90 percent of the data in an enterprise is text. Sadly, this rich information is mostly neglected for analytical purposes. Textual data is typically full of information, but also very complex to interpret computationally and statistically. Why? Because textual data is both co...

This is the second episode of a two-part series of Leaders of Analytics featuring global data science thought leader and influencer Felipe Flores. Felipe is a global thought leader and influencer in the field of data science and artificial intelligence. He is the founder of Data Futurology – a ...