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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

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The Four Core Project Types: A Conceptual Foundation for Predictive Analytics

Tony Rathburn

The vast majority of predictive analytics projects can be conceptualized as falling into one of four basic types, from which we can creatively combine the benefits of each to enhance our organizational performance.

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Using SQL/BI Tools with Semi-Structured Data

Poulomi Damany

Analytics tools and platforms must evolve to enable the promise of big data, including mining the most from semi-structured data.

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The State of Agile BI, Part 3: From Agile to Agility

Tom Hammergren

In the last part of our series, we examine the business-driven context for BI and the link between the agile development and a business's agility imperative.

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Yellowfin Tweaks Its Positioning with New Yellowfin 7 Platform

Stephen Swoyer

With Yellowfin 7, Yellowfin business intelligence gets a branding makeover -- from a simple BI platform to an "analytics platform." It's a departure from Yellowfin's traditional messaging, but according to CEO Glen Rabie, the company has been an analytics powerhouse all along.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Preparing Data for Analytics

Speaker: Philip Russom

April
1
9:00AM PT
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There's a fair amount of confusion about how best to collect, integrate, and preprocess data for advanced analytics. Many BI and data warehouse professionals think it's the same as the traditional ETL practices they've applied to their report-oriented data warehouses for years. Some database administrators think it's just a matter of dumping large volumes of data into a highly scalable repository.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Seven Data Discovery Steps for Improving Information Delivery and Accuracy

It's important to know your data, yet many organizations lack fundamental knowledge about their data. The situation is getting tougher as "big data" sources grow and documentation efforts can't keep pace. Good data knowledge is critical to defining business objects; poor understanding leads to higher costs, embarrassing mistakes, regulatory errors, and data quality problems that damage daily decision making.

Speaker: Dave Stodder

April
8
9:00AM PT

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Analytics at the Speed of Business: Delivering Real-Time Insight from Data Streams

Find out how your organization can achieve new advantages through the visualization and analysis of real-time data and event streams.

Speaker: Dave Stodder

April
9
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Events Calendar

March 31 - April 3, 2014

TDWI Seminar Series in Vancouver: BI Essentials

Vancouver, BC

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April 7 - 10, 2014

TDWI Seminar Series in Washington DC: Data Modeling

Washington, DC

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April 15, 2014

Solution Spotlight on Big Data Analytics

New York, NY

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