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Elisabeth Versailles21 December 2017 0

How QTEM helps bridge the data science skills gap

It has been a couple of years now since Bruno Van Pottelsberghe, Dean of Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management first talked to me about QTEM, or Quantitative Techniques for Economics & Management Masters Network. The discussion really struck a chord with me, because my experience until then had

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence | Fraud & Security Intelligence

Oliver Börner19 December 2017 0

How Real-Time Customer Engagement Saved My Christmas

I have to confess: when it comes to Christmas, I'm a "real man". I do everything at the last minute, and certainly do not risk starting too soon… And that's exactly how it was last year, when I realized that it was Christmas Eve, and I still had no gifts

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Federico Alberto Pozzi19 December 2017 0

Puntare sulla customer experience per fidelizzare i clienti

Una customer experience personalizzata in real-time è fattore trainante per le revenue. Per questo motivo, la maggior parte delle aziende sta cercando di raggiungere questo risultato. Fornire un’eccellente customer experience (CX) non è una novità assoluta; è sempre stata la base più affidabile del business. La vera novità è rappresentata

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Analytics | Students & Educators

Thomas Keil19 December 2017 0

Meetups for data science students: A platform for networking and discussion

Meetup is an online social networking service with a difference: It is designed to help people organise face-to-face meetings about topics that interest them. Although it is online, the offline meetings are a key element, unlike Facebook or Instagram, or even LinkedIn, where the online world is paramount. Groups, meet-ups

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Analytics

Morten Krogh Danielsen18 December 2017 0

Data-driven management will be used to fight hospital-acquired infections

Hospital-acquired infections is a topic both clinicians and politicians take very seriously in The Region of Southern Denmark. And they’re not resting on their laurels. The region is now presenting tangible action plans and expanding a system to enhance the prevention and treatment of unwanted infections through the use of

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Health Care

Analytics | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning

Bert Weemaes15 December 2017 0

Industry 4.0 - Boosting productivity with digital twin analytics

This article focusses on time-variant manufacturing processes, and how analytics can help boost their productivity. Many production lines relying on such processes are involuntarily operated using a suboptimal combination of input control settings most of the time. This weakens overall returns at facilities such as steel mills, mines, chemical and

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Manufacturing

Analytics

Morten Krogh Danielsen15 December 2017 0

Patient-reported data (PRD) - are we ambitious enough?

The agreement on the regional economies for 2016 states that hospitals in Denmark will develop tools “that support common decision-making, skill development, and systematic use of patient-reported data (PRD)” by the end of 2019. The work is well underway and the new and more detailed goals mean that we’re now

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Health Care

Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Muhammad Asif Abbasi14 December 2017 0

Re-thinking data expiration: Real time, right time and shelf-lives

There is a buzz about ‘real-time’ analytics and its likely impact on decision-making, customer relationships and profitability. It is, to be fair, new and exciting, and therefore undeniably attractive. Part of the excitement may be because everyone can see the potential, and the cynicism has not yet set in. The

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Analytics | Students & Educators

Lindsay Hart14 December 2017 0

What makes a student “employable”?

Here in Canada, we find a data scientist is a wondrous, near-mythical creature. We have all heard the long list of skills required to be a data scientist. For example, software engineer Josh Wills of Slack defined a data scientist as “a person who is better at statistics than any

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Analytics | Students & Educators

Christian Giraud12 December 2017 2

Hackathons: More than just fun

Hackathons are widely acknowledged to be very good value for companies that support and sponsor them. They help to encourage innovation in several different ways, including through bringing in new talent and new ideas. Especially in older, more established firms, the benefits of shaking up the culture slightly cannot be

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