Cognitive Intelligence meets Advanced Analytics
Author: Etienne Oosthuysen Acquiring knowledge of anonymous customers through Cognitive Intelligence is the next generation customer based Business Intelligence. Human behavior and characteristics such as speech, demographics, and emotion can now be expressed digitally and blended that with Advanced Analytics. Exposé apply this across a number of different use cases as shown in the video. […]
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A story is worth a thousand visuals
Any report can contain information. It’s relatively easy to just place random visualisations together to display information from a multitude of data sources. But without context or structure does this add any value or provide a better experience for the report reader?
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Colouring with numbers – Can data present a better picture?
With the rise of self-service reporting, is just presenting the data enough? Or is how information is presented just as impactful as to what is being presented?
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The battle of the AMLs – Amazon Machine Learning Vs Azure Machine Learning
As machine learning has become more accessible to businesses and the number of products currently available has risen in the market, the question is regularly asked of us as leaders in data and analytics to recommend, or at least provide insight, into some of those products. Machine learning has become more accessible and there are […]
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From water cooler discussion to corporate Data Analytics in record time
Author: Etienne Oosthuysen For those who have been involved in conventional Business Intelligence projects, you will be all too familiar with the likely contiguous chain of events and the likely outcome. It typically goes something like this: The idea is incubated by someone (very often this would be within ICT), a business case for a […]
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Connecting to Big Data Clusters from Excel
Author: Etienne Oosthuysen Connecting to big data clusters from Excel is now relatively simple. But those who have tried would have noticed multiple ways to achieve what seems to be the same thing. This article aims to clear these muddy waters a bit. I am using Microsoft Office 365 Pro Plus (Excel 2013) updated to […]
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Power BI and Microsoft Azure – what’s all the fuss about?
Author: Etienne Oosthuysen This blog provides a journey starting with Excel and its promotion to BI, it moves on to Power BI version 2 and concludes with a much larger Azure analytical story. Let’s start this journey with some topical statistics. US$97bn the projected annual dollar spend on BI services by 2016. Good 19% the […]
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How to compete @ Adelaide Unleashed and succeed !
What follows is the sequence of events that led to our glorious wins @ Adelaide Unleashed 2015
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