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Data Digest: The Spread of IoT, Visualization Tips, and Data Industry Challenges

Articles examine the scope of IoT expansion, offer 6 tips for better data visualizations, and explain key data challenges for 2016.

Data Stories: Life Moments and Gerrymandering

A timeline of human life, plus ending gerrymandering with algorithms.

Data Digest: Using Big Data for Good, 5 Practical Steps for Becoming a Data Scientist, and Analytics Complexity

Does big data invade personal privacy? Explore how big data can be used for good. Plus, five practical steps to get started as a data scientist, plus turning data into insight by overcoming top data challenges.

The Case for Operationalizing Self-Service Data Prep

Imagine empowering more of your employees by using self-service data prep tools to address both exploratory use cases and operational use cases.

Collaboration and Freedom Key to Data Science Solutions

We continue our interview with the head of an unusual and highly successful data scientist team at Cisco, Robert J. Lake. His approach to managing his team focuses on allowing people to learn and take risks.

Marketing IT In-House: Never Stop Selling Your Project

Don't automatically believe it when you're told there's no money for your BI project.

Data Science as a Team Sport: Building a Culture Open to Risk

The head of a data scientist team at Cisco discusses how he hires and manages his diverse group -- and why the ability to write software code is not a prerequisite.

Data Digest: 6 IoT Security Risks, Keeping Data Lakes Clean, and a Fog Layer for IoT

How to make sure your enterprise stays safe when connecting to IoT devices, keeping your data lake pure, and Inserting a "fog" layer between devices and the cloud.

Managing Customer Data for Analytics (Fourth in a Series)

Customer analytics can help you optimize business processes, but first you must assess how you are managing your customer data.