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Data Stories: Inspire Engagement with Interactivity

Three examples of interactive visualizations: drawing a chart before revealing the data, a quiz to test your demographics knowledge, and a game to teach correlation coefficients.

How a Small Insurance Firm Uses Big Data to Level the Playing Field

Large insurance companies are very good at aggregating data to analyze risk, but not so good at using big data to improve the front-end customer experience. That presents an opportunity for smaller firms, explains a digital marketing expert at insurance start-up Insureon.

Power BI Gets an Analytics Infusion

Microsoft's Power BI cloud platform got an analytics refresh to close out the year. In addition, Power BI now supports DirectQuery for both Spark and Azure Analysis Services.

5 Minutes with a CTO: Darren Peirce of Magnitude Software

What's it like to be a chief technology officer? We look at the job itself and what role analytics plays with Darren Peirce of Magnitude Software.

Data Digest: National Polls, Fake News, Cybersecurity Threats

A new poll shows what Americans think about policy under President Obama, a survey explores how people judge their news sources, and experts predict the major cybersecurity threats for 2017.

The Year Ahead: 2017 Predictions for Analytics

Adoption of analytics across the enterprise is occurring at breakneck speed, and there is no sign of slowing down. In 2017, we'll witness a critical point as organizations seek analytics that extract greater value from all available data.

Growth of Cyberattacks Explored in New Report

Cybersecurity has been in the news throughout 2016 as the number and severity of attacks has increased. A new report presents analysis on the types of attacks that are growing, the dangers posed by IoT, and the security trends to expect this year.

5 Minutes with a CEO: Ryan Shaw of Shoreditch

CEO Ryan Shaw describes his experiences running a start-up and how he sees analytics being used by different stakeholders.

5 Minutes with a CEO: Jeff Bishop of Top Stock Picks

As a business owner, Jeff Bishop monitors analytics to make sure his company is reaching the right people with the right message.

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