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3 tips to improve your leadership skills
What makes a great leader? Here are three things you can do to help improve your leadership skills. 1. Become a better communicator. Great leaders are effective communicators. If you struggle in this department, it may be time to hone your communication skills. When it comes to effective communication, practice makes perfect. I used to hate…
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Failure is an option
Traf-O-Data 8008 Have you ever heard of Traf-O-Data 8008? If you answered “no,” you’re not alone. Bill Gates’s first attempt at entrepreneurship was a bit of a flop. Traf-O-Data 8008 was supposed to turn traffic tapes into useful data. Things were so bad that the product didn’t work during a demo for a local County government. Some time later, the State…
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Your IT Infrastructure is Dying
Eventually, all of your technology will die. According to manufacturer specifications, every product has a useful service life. It’s the IT Circle of Life, aka IT Asset Management, and should be part of your strategic plan and budget. I once led technology operations for a company with a small data center and an APC Symmetra power backup unit consisting…
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7 tips to help get your AWS costs under control
Do you feel like your AWS monthly costs are getting out of control? Costs will continue to trend up as your needs grow. With that in mind, here are a few tips to help IT and Finance reign in spending. Develop a simple metric to track your monthly AWS costs—Cost per X. Your X can be customers,…
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Using Prescriptive Analytics to Make Better Decisions
Business Analytics is broken down into three distinct phases. Descriptive – What happened? This phase involves traditional BI tools to help organizations process and report on historical data. Trends are analyzed and decisions are made. The majority of management reporting uses this approach. Predictive – What will happen? This phase uses machine learning algorithms to build…
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3 free data tools you never knew you were missing
The right tools can make a world of difference. If you work with data, here are three tools to add to your toolbox.
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6 steps to data mining awesomeness
Have a data mining project on the horizon? These 6 steps make up the Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) and will help add some awesomeness!
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In God we trust.
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People react to being called beautiful
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