Four Ways the Data Scientist Has Evolved to the 21st Century
Understanding the importance of the human – machine integration and complementary decision-making skills from each appears to have made its…
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How to Choose the Proper Analytics Tools for an Enterprise
In this article, we offer key steps to provide your organization with a framework for determining how to optimize its…
Five Steps for Choosing the Proper Analytical Tools for Your Organization
Data is quickly becoming a company’s most important asset. To monetize this asset, organizations leverage analytical tools that generate insights…
Propensity Score Application
Propensity score based methods applied to mitigate the bias in treatment effect estimation incurred by self-selection on observables, usually follow…
Machine Learning Applications for Document Classification
Machine learning is being applied to many difficult problems in the advanced analytics arena. A current application of interest is…
Commoditization of a Project Manager
Say it isn’t so! As an employee and consultant that has played in some form the role of project manager…
Three Ways to Generate Profit With the Data You Already Have
Build it and they will come. That is the view many organizations maintain about their data lakes and data warehouses.…
Self-Service Analytics Are Here, Do Business Intelligence Teams Face Extinction?
The world of analytics is changing. Self-Service Analytical tools like Tableau, Qlik, and Power BI are enabling business users to…
Marketing Mix Modeling – Avoiding common pitfalls
Peek at the ever-increasing cost of a Super Bowl television ad and you’d likely be unconvinced that many companies’ marketing…
Creative, Collaborative Scheduling
Have you ever had a project with several cross-functional workstreams, multiple internal and external parties, an aggressive schedule, and leads…
What Crash Davis Taught Me About Business Analysis and Product Management
Business analysis is what I do, so it’s no surprise that I find inspiration for my trade in unexpected places. …
Making Retrospectives Fun and Engaging
Are your retrospectives becoming stale or repetitive? Are they failing to add value? For new agile teams, does awkward reluctance…
Writing Effective User Stories
User stories are the smallest units of user functionality in agile which can be delivered in one agile sprint. A…
Iterate or Fail?
Agile development techniques have been more and more adopted by IT organizations trying to seek faster time-to-market and to reduce…
The Evolution of a Product Evangelist
Product Managers evolve along a continuum into “Evangelists” with passion, training and experience. The Framework At Aspirent we believe that…
Analytics with Jupyter Notebook
Out of all the tools in in my Analytics toolkit, I am particularly fond of the Jupyter notebook. It is…
Thoughts and Reactions to Post on New Leaders Stepping into Difficult Situations
For those that don’t know about Simon Sanek, he’s described as “a visionary thinker with a rare intellect” Sanek teaches…
Database Marketing – Targeting Existing Customers
Database Marketing is the process of taking existing customer, market and competitive data to create targeted marketing messages to retain…
Estimation Sanity in an Agile World
The myth that there is no estimation in an Agile development environment has been thoroughly debunked through various estimation strategies…