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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

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Q&A: Agile Data Engineering Using Advanced Data Modeling Concepts

James Powell

How data architects can solve age-old dilemmas with new techniques.

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Making the Best Decisions: Using Context, Inclusion, and Information Foraging

Stephen Swoyer

When it comes to decision making, what you exclude can be as important as what you include. Making a decision involves conscious evaluation, discrimination, and selection, and some alternatives might not occur to us simply out of habit. Those habits must be challenged.

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Q&A: Extreme Scoping: A Data-Driven Agile Methodology

James Powell

The traditional Scrum approach is well suited to developers but not enterprise information management professionals. We discuss a new, data-driven agile approach with its creator, Larissa Moss.

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A More Agile Approach to Data Quality

Stephen Swoyer

How does one do agile data quality? A good starting place might be a new report from TDWI Research, which provides a checklist of action items for "doing" agile DQ. Agile and DQ could make for an especially organic fit.

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Three Ways to Use Geospatial Data in Analytics

Companies are excited by the prospect of incorporating geospatial data into analysis. TDWI Research's Fern Halper offers a few examples of the analysis she's been hearing about.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Bridging the Gap Between Business and IT

Speaker: Cindi Howson

July
23
9:00AM PT
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Business-IT partnership is one of the most critical aspects of successful business intelligence solutions aligned with the goals of the business. Yet most companies continue to report painful disconnects between the business and IT.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Busting 10 Myths about Hadoop

Although Hadoop and related technologies have been with us for several years now, most business intelligence (BI) professionals and their business counterparts still harbor a few misconceptions that need to be corrected about Hadoop and related technologies such as MapReduce.

Speaker: Philip Russom

July
24
9:00AM PT

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Using Analytics to be Predictive and Proactive

Organizations today need to get ahead of events so they can adjust decisions about resources, personnel, up- sell and cross-sell offers, fraud and abuse detection, and more in dynamic fashion. Analytics can play a key role in bringing predictive insights to executives and managers. With these insights coupled with continuous, real-time data views from business and operational intelligence systems, organizations can be "proactive" - - that is, they can do more than just react after the fact to events and market changes, and instead shape their own destiny.

Speaker: David Stodder

August
14
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

August 12-15, 2013

TDWI Seminar Series: BI Essentials and Foundations in Analytics

New York, NY

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August 18-23, 2013

TDWI World Conference: Agile BI

San Diego, CA

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August 19-21, 2013

TDWI Executive Summit 2013

San Diego, CA

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