Teaching analytics with modern Excel
Your organization needs a data-informed workforce, but how do you build one? Hire highly-credentialled data scientists, and they may balk at the spreadsheet-based data pipelines currently in place. …
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has the power to surprise, delight and frighten. It seems almost magical. But this false appearance can tempt organizations to skip steps in their data strategy. Here's …
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Building a "data academy" sounds like a lot of work, so it's natural to want to delegate or find ways around it. A common strategy might sound something like this: I know we need get better at …
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Up-skilling your workforce's data capacities is crucial to stay competitive. But learning data is hard: what is going to motivate individuals to keep at it? A cardinal rule of education is to …
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"Blended learning:" not again! It's a term so cringey only a consultant would love it, but "blended learning" has made waves in the education space. As you may expect from such a trendy phrase, it …
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Empowered by Data: How to Build Inspired Analytics Communities by Eva Murray If you've followed my work for any amount of time, you'll have heard me muse on the data academy -- an organization's …
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