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Month: June 2016

Conference Reflections Part 1: Open Data Science Conference East

My employer is amazing and in the last two months, they’ve allowed me to attend a lot of data science conferences and I thought I’d share some general reflections on my experiences.

Open Data Science Conference: A Great Value for New Comers

UnknownI gave two presentations this year at Open Data Science Conference (ODSC) East and I just wanted to put it out there that if you are new to data science or are just interested in learning more about data science, then ODSC is a really great venue to meet incredibly talented individuals as well as attend high quality technical talks.

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Something is Rotten in the State of Data

I’m writing this blog post in the departure lounge at Heathrow, on my way back from Strata + Hadoop World, London.  Whilst at Strata, speakers kept coming back to the idea that an ever growing number of large businesses are not really happy with the investments they have made in analytics and data science.  One of the speakers quoted a Forrester 2016 survey which claimed that:

  • 29% of firms are good at translating analytics results into measurable business outcomes
  • -20% change in satisfaction with analytics initiatives between 2014 and 2015
  • 50% of firms expecting to see stagnation or a decrease in big data/data lake investments in 2016.

These are very disappointing numbers, however not completely unsurprising.  Using the “5 why” technique an intra-management dialogue might go something like this:

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