For the second year in a row, Metis, a leader in data science education, is hosting Demystifying Data Science: A FREE, 2-day, Live Online Conference! I’ll be speaking on July 24th at 2:30pm about ‘The Art & Science of Smart Storytelling’.
About 2 weeks ago, I did a PASS Facebook Live Pop-up that went very well! This blog post contains a list of resources I mentioned during the live event.
If you’re like me, post the holiday break, you’re officially in the 2018 ‘goal setting’ mode. On the professional side, I started by searching on the internet to see which 2018 Analytics, Business Intelligence, and (more recently) Artificial Intelligence predictions were trending! What I found was 20+ google pages of articles from vendors, bloggers, and very questionable sources. It seems like predictions have become a trend!
Happy New Year AOF community! To kick off 2018, like many of you, I scoured the internet to see what analytics predictions and trends were being discussed. After reviewing 80+ predictions (some good, some bad) from top news sites & influencers, two things are clear. One. Artificial Intelligence is the new Business Intelligence. Companies will either embrace it or get left behind. Two. The ability to tell visual stories is now required to ensure the success of future AI/BI projects.
I’m excited to be heading to SAPinsider BI 2017 co-located with HANA 2017 and Basis & SAP Administration 2017, taking place February 22 – March 2, 2017, at the Walt Disney Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando, Florida.
Modern dashboards contain summarized and interactive visualizations, and when done correctly, should effectively communicate performance. This guiding principle hasn’t changed in the last 10 years as the popularity of dashboards and data visualization soared. However, the technology choices, features, and approaches have advanced. Mobility, cloud and data exploration technologies have helped expand the persons who can create and consume dashboards.
I’m excited to be heading to SAPinsider BI 2016 co-located with HANA 2016, Financials 2016, GRC 2016, HR 2016, and BASIS 2016, taking place June 20-22, 2016 at the Austria Center Vienna. Catch me at booth: #205 with my friends from Xoomworks and GB&Smith.
Great news AoF Community! My first free online dashboard design training video is finally available. We at the BI Brainz Academy hope you enjoy the video and take full advantage of the exact design techniques that we have used for years. Ever since I started working at BI Brainz, I’ve had many first’s. Here’s a […]
It’s that time of year again! I’m getting ready to head back to San Jose, CA, for the Microsoft PASS Business Analytics Conference 2016 on May 2 – 4th, 2016. I can’t wait to rub shoulders again with some of Microsoft’s brightest, and finest Excel users. 🙂 I had a fantastic time keynoting this event last […]
This week on Analytics on Fire, we’re back again with another incredible interview; this time with the Deputy CIO of Johns Hopkins University, Geof Corb, on how he and his team learned to embrace BI (business intelligence) disruption and love it. Geof has been in IT for 17 years and now manages an IT team […]
