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Data-Driven Isn’t Dead

Towards Data Science

Some say that being data-driven is no longer the right goal. In reality, data-driven is the right objective; we just rarely pursue it the right way.

From Data-Driven to Data Science-Driven

Towards Data Science

In 2010, while still in grad school finishing up my degree, I launched a small consulting company selling my data analytics skills. The motto on my website was “Data Driven.” That was it. Original, I…...

Key Ingredients to Being Data Driven

Towards Data Science

Companies love to exclaim “we’re data driven”. There are obvious benefits to being a data driven organization, and everyone nowadays has more data than they can shake a stick at. But what exactly…

Becoming Data Driven Level 3: Using Data to Make Awesome Decisions

Towards Data Science

In the second article in this series, we talked about ways you can detect if what you’re planning to do to your online product is a bad idea. This time we’ll be more forward thinking and talk about…

The Power of Data

Towards Data Science

When I stood up to speak last Friday at the Steering Committee meeting between the Ministry of Education of Ivory Coast and TRECC — a partnership for transforming Education in cocoa producing…

Data-Driven vs Data-Informed vs Data-Inspired — Old Ideas, New Words

Towards Data Science

Second, the article argues that for good reasons, all three buzzwords are marketing old concepts in new clothes. It is merely asking us not to be a data fundamentalist, and not to abandon common…

Why Organizations Need To Be Data-Driven (Part Two)

Towards Data Science

This second post on “Why Organizations Need To Be Data-Driven” reveals some of the challenges of becoming data-driven and how organizations can overcome these challenges to become truly data-driven…

Becoming Data Driven Level 2: Using Data to Avoid Unwise Decisions

Towards Data Science

“Using Data to Avoid Shitty Decisions” is just a polite way of saying “mitigating risk”. Level 2 in this series is all about reducing the likelihood of releasing a change to an online product that…

Data-driven decision making is harder than you think

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One of my earliest memories of football dates back to the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals between Italy and France. Before the infamous headbutt, Zinedine Zidane had opened the scoring for France through…

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Python make it possible to work with data through analysis, visualization and persistence. Learn more about data on Full Stack Python.

The Obscure Art of Data Design

Towards Data Science

Battling an embarrassing new alchemy for the digital era Continue reading on Towards Data Science

Data to Predictions

Analytics Vidhya

“I didn’t see that one coming,” said no data scientist ever. Not because data contains answers to every question. But because they are prepared for any finding that the data might throw at them. With…...