Leaders of Analytics

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 the...

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 design a...

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 thing...

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 content...

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 podca...

Automated decisions, personalised customer and employee experiences and data-driven decision-making are at the core of digital transformation in the 2020s. In other words, data is eating the world and all modern leaders must know how to use data, analytics and advanced data science to power their or...

When we talk about data and AI ethics, we typically view this through a privacy lens. That is, someone’s personal data has either been compromised and ended up in the wrong hands, or personal data is used to manipulate or create adverse outcomes for individuals or minority groups. These factors are ...

Is the typical hiring and job search process broken? It is definitely full of bias. First, we get interested candidates to submit their resumes. Then someone (typically not the hiring manager) will pick out the resumes that look most interesting to them. Resumes that survive are typically carefully ...

Blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies and decentralised finance are described by some as massively disruptive technologies that will turn our existing financial system on its head. For the traditional financial services industry, these technologies have the potential to create huge efficiency gain...

Data is everywhere, but do we know what it means? A common problem for many enterprises wanting to adopt cutting edge, data-driven solutions is that they have a ton of legacy applications interlinking with more modern tech stacks. If the organisation is large or complex enough, it typically becomes ...