Category: Data Best Practices

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We’ve all seen it…maybe even done it:  purchased a piece of trendy exercise equipment that now sits idle where it’s used as a very trendy clothes rack. In hindsight, can…

Suppose you hire a customer support agent who answers questions from your customers.  At some point, that employee begins to give incorrect answers, bad advice, and possibly even dangerous directions. …

When the discussion turns to analytics and data science, do you immediately think of aluminum? If you said no, that’s good — you shouldn’t have.   Until now. Aluminum has many…

The often-misquoted line “Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink” from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge describes the irony of being surrounded by something…

L. Frank Baum was way ahead of his time when he led Dorothy to expose the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz as a charlatan. The Munchkins believed that the…

In the world of finance, professionals are constantly looking for ways to improve data processing and analysis, especially unstructured data. Unstructured data is information that does not reside in a…

Have you ever seen a chef bussing tables? Or a dishwasher running a kitchen? A Michelin 5-star restaurant that asks its chef to wash dishes is paying far too much…

Who doesn’t love crystals? They’re solid; regular, predictable. Some crystals are sweet (sugar), some are strong (diamond), and as fans of Breaking Bad know, some are very profitable. Some people even think crystals…

The news is filled with artificial intelligence and machine learning success stories showcasing groundbreaking results and new and innovative applications for the technology. What is less often reported, but just…