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What will make "Data" work in 2019?

Speed of Adoption will matter more than ever

It’s been a while since businesses have been debating over investment into data and analytics. Some people have already done it and it is working out. We are over and above the apprehensions of whether Data investments work or not, now, the questions is how soon you can make it work. It has to be strategy first and a top down push on getting the data investments to execution and results. It is a herculean task but by now…

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Added by Gaurav Kumar on December 25, 2018 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Human work starts where analytics stops

It has been a while since the hype, and now it’s time for some reality check.

Everyone has been riding on the data wave and analytics has been the biggest buzz word for almost a decade now.

Let us talk about the impact, success and ROI now.

How many companies do you think are really changing the way they have been , by adopting analytics?
How many businesses are data driven? In real sense?
How many enterprises are running at scale with big data…

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Added by Gaurav Kumar on May 2, 2017 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Conscious, Sub-conscious and un-conscious sides of data science

Thanks to Sigmund Fraud for all the fascinating discoveries in human Psychology. I have always been fascinated about how human psychology plays a vital role in decisions we make and how it is inevitable to be understand how human psychology works before you get into improving customer experience and talking about machines replacing human thinking.

One of the major discoveries which Fraud has is around the different states of mind, namely, conscious, sub-conscious and…

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Added by Gaurav Kumar on April 23, 2016 at 3:12pm — 3 Comments

Lean Analytics: The building blocks

Analytics is still in a phase in many organizations where selling it internally to the stakeholders is the biggest challenge.Creating analytics is a cost- resource intensive investment for enterprises and evangelizing the trust in data driven thinking and optimizing the opportunity cost due to delay in adoption is the most crucial problem to solve.

All the frameworks which talk about the Analytics mix, various technology & tools stack and maturity roadmaps, are confined to…

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Added by Gaurav Kumar on March 28, 2016 at 3:30am — No Comments