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What Baseball Can Teach You About Using Data to Improve Yourself

It seems like every business is struggling with the concept of transformation. Large incumbents are trying to keep pace with digital...

Getting Ready for Digital Transformation: Change Your Culture, Workforce, and Technology

The digital transformation of higher education is at hand. Leaders must prepare their institutions now to take strategic advantage of the...

Using AI to Help Students Learn "How to College"

Artificial intelligence can help students learn "how to college." This sets them on the path to graduation and to success far beyond the...

Rolling Out Learning Analytics at a National Level

Implementing a learning analytics system across all higher education institutions in Wales provides a model for the opportunities for...

Big Data Science: Establishing Data-Driven Institutions through Advanced Analytics

Data analytics can drive decision-making, but to optimize those decisions, stakeholders must couple effective methods with a shared...

Avoiding workspace loops by expanding navigation properties in the GetGroupsAsAdmin API

From: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/es-es/blog/announcing-support-for-non-premium-power-bi-datasets-in-power-bi-paginated-report-builder/...

Announcing New AI and Enterprise features for Power BI

From: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/es-es/blog/announcing-new-ai-and-enterprise-features-for-power-bi/ As we kick off the Microsoft...

Announcing the New Viewer Role for Power BI Workspaces

From: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/es-es/blog/announcing-the-new-viewer-role-for-power-bi-workspaces/ We’re excited to announce...

Free Book: Classification and Regression In a Weekend

By Ajit Jaokar and Dan Howarth. With contributions from Ayse Mutlu. Exclusively for Data Science Central members, with free access. You...

The Lifecycle of Data

The lifecycle of data travels through six phases: The lifecycle "wheel" isn't set in stone. While it's common to move through the phases...

Free Book: Statistics, Dataviz, and Data Cleaning with R

I stumbled upon this book by chance, when searching for material about time series (probably the most interesting chapter in this...

Microsoft Power BI: The future of modern BI - roadmap and vision

Meet Microsoft's BI leadership team and understand the Microsoft Power BI vision and strategy. Some opinions expressed in this article...

Have it both ways: AI in banking and capital markets

Financial institutions today face numerous challenges—everything from intense regulatory pressures to upstarts coming at them from every...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE CLASSROOM

It is an exercise in stating the obvious to say we are living in a rapidly changing world, where technology is both one of the most...

What’s the Difference Between Artificial Intelligence and Automation?

How are artificial intelligence (AI) and Automation different? Don’t they both offer options of hands-free, robotic style design? Often...

Advanced Analytics – The Fourth Great Lever of Corporate Change

Summary: Advanced analytics and AI are the fourth great lever available to create organic improvement in corporations. We’ll describe...

Why Analytics Projects Fail – And It’s Not The Analytics!

Being in a highly technical, complex field it is easy to sometimes lose the ‘human aspect’ of the solutions we are developing. We focus...

4 types of social media analytics explained

Depending on the business objectives, social media analytics can take four different forms, namely, descriptive analytics, diagnostic...

The Value of Certification

Microsoft Imagine Academy designed to ensure students enter higher education, further education, or the workplace with this vitally...

The Importance of Being a Mentor and Having a Mentor

Mentoring is a very important part of what we “engage” in as educators. Whether we serve as a mentor to a colleague or a student, or...