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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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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Federico Alberto Pozzi12 December 2017 0

Customers are no longer loyal to brands, but to the best customer experience they can get

Conveying an individualized customer experience in real-time drives income today. Be that as it may, most organizations are attempting to get this right. As everybody knows, giving extraordinary customer experience (CX) is not an absolute novelty; it has dependably been the bedrock of business. What is new is that the

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Analytics | Students & Educators

Mark Frankish11 December 2017 0

Mentors, data science and learning

What is the ideal training and development programme for data scientists? Discuss. This ‘exam question’ crops up time and time again in discussions with students, academics, data scientists, and across the business community. This is in large part because in a fast-moving field like data science, the quality of training

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Machine Learning

David Dozoul7 December 2017 0

Road to unmanned rigs through big data analytics

From spud to completion, during the drilling phase, operators can face any issue that would jeopardize well integrity, delay time to completion, expose people or equipment to excessive risks and likely to increase costs. In a sector where safety to people and equipment is key to operate, industrials have long

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Analytics

Mayra Pedraza7 December 2017 0

Powering data science education with social collaboration

Data science continues to become more and more critical, especially in the education sector. There is an ever-growing need to encourage and persuade younger generations to choose a career pathway in STEM areas from an early stage in their education, not least because organisations are struggling to find the analytical

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Analytics | Customer Intelligence

Alex Kwiatkowski5 December 2017 2

Cost & profitability analytics: Show me the money

If you’ve been a regular reader of my musings over the years, or heard me bring these thoughts to life in-person at an event or during a webinar, you’ll know that I like to rely upon a few tried and tested phrases. One of my favourites is “’x’ [insert technology

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