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                | Wednesday, May 13, 2015 |  
                | News Highlights
                    
                      
                        |  |  | Stephen SwoyerA new report from TDWI Research tackles 
the burning question: what does it take to deploy, manage, and scale 
Hadoop in the enterprise?  |  
                        |  |  | Fern HalperThe use of devices connected to the 
Internet is raising business and ethical questions. |  
                        |  |  | David PowerTaking full advantage of a firm's 
information resources requires good data management practices, and 
that requires corporate leadership dedicated to two principles. |  
                        |  |  | Stephen SwoyerThe latest entry in TDWI's "Checklist 
Reports" series tackles a particularly pertinent question: What does 
the term "data-driven" actually mean, anyway? TDWI's report provides 
a step-by-step primer for designing, building, managing, and 
improving enterprise data-driven apps. |  
                        |  |  | Alex ReinhartHow do you know you're selecting the 
right data samples to investigate?  The lucky and unlucky subjects 
of your study won't stay exceptional forever, a phenomenon known as 
regression to the mean.  Alex Reinhart, a Carnegie Mellon University 
statistics instructor, explains the impact this observation has on 
your analytics results. |  |  
                
               
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                        |  |   | TDWI Webinar Series:Speaker: 
                           Philip Russom
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                        | Join Philip Russom, director of research 
at TDWI, and Patrick Adamiak, vice president at Liaison 
Technologies, for an in-depth look at this emerging platform model 
and the value it can bring to your business. |  |  
                | Upcoming Webinars of Interest
                    
                      |   | Organizations can gain real value by 
harnessing their valuable corporate data to understand why something 
is happening now, and more important, what's likely to happen next. 
Learn what skills and technologies you need to support your move to 
predictive analytics.  What will you need to run what-if scenarios, 
gain instant awareness and instant action on "in-flight" data, and 
adapt business strategies in real time. Speaker: 
                        
                        Claudia Imhoff
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                      |   | TDWI's Research Director Philip Russom 
discusses the recently published TDWI Checklist Report about 
modernizing a data warehouse.  You'll learn what trends are driving 
the need for data warehouse modernization, user strategies, the new 
data platforms and tools users are applying in their modernization 
projects, and what lies ahead for the modern data warehouse.  
Attendees will receive a free copy of the report. Speaker: 
                        
                        Philip Russom
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                      |  | August 3 - 6, 2015 |  
                      | Seminar in Chicago // Insight and Impact through 
Data Mining and Predictive AnalyticsChicago, IL |  
                      | Learn More / Register Now |  |  |