The claim for most CEO dashboards is that they provide a complete view of enterprise performance and reliable, real-time information. Yet, if you’ve ever taken the time to read about building the perfect CEO dashboard, you might remember time-consuming tips and tricks explaining which metrics to include in the data monitored by the dashboard, and…
South Park Kids Make Jokes and IoT Devices Seriously React In the debut episode for South Park’s 21st season, the beloved characters not only poked fun at the white nationalist movement in an episode called ‘White People Renovating Houses’, but also yelled commands at their own cartoon Alexa devices throughout the episode. This actually started…
Business KPI dashboards don’t provide actionable insights now Business data analysts are in dashboard hell right now. They have to interpret data from so many different sources and then try to figure out what is the best action to take, with the most important decisions being made based on this information. Despite having “Key Performance…
With its flexible trading platforms that provide fast and easy access to financial markets, the social investment company eToro provides a platform for users to observe the financial trading activity of others, copy them and then make their own trades. Every day, eToro’s online platform attracts thousands of new accounts, and its user base has…
We just can’t comprehend data like AI can – that’s the main theme running through this series. In this, the third and final post of a series on uncovering hidden opportunities using AI analytics, we’ll discuss the shortcomings of dashboard tools, and how traditional business intelligence (BI) tools built upon dashboards can’t keep up with…
KPIs are the Cliff’s Notes of business metrics: a handpicked selection of the many measurable quantities which a business can – or does – collect. They can provide vital clues as to how well the business is doing as a whole, for instance which marketing initiatives are and aren’t working, and thus they provide feedback…
Recently Gartner released their latest Hype Cycle report for Data Science and Machine Learning, advising Data and analytics leaders to use this report to better understand the data science and machine learning landscape and evaluate their current capabilities and technology adoption prospects. The report states that “to succeed with data and analytics initiatives, enterprises must…
In this first post of our new series on overlooked incidents and AI analytics, we’ll discuss how intelligent monitoring of your metrics can open the door when opportunity knocks…before it walks away. “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing” – Stephen Covey Or at least that’s the intent when starting…
Looking for Business Incidents When You Don’t Know What to Look For Facing significant delays in discovering important incidents in their active, online business, PMC’s data science team needed a better way to stay on top of business incidents. PMC had been relying on Google Analytics’ alert function. However, the problem was that they had…
Just before we get into how Anodot extracts actionable insights from time series data, it’s worthwhile to recap what exactly a time series is and how businesses typically generate them. First, companies take a certain metric (a value or quantity) which is considered important, most often it’s one of the usual key performance indicators (KPIs):…
For some reason, there are still companies out there that mistakenly think that social media is useful only for interrupting people’s cat-filled feeds with a bit of marketing. The reality, however, is that technology today also allows brands to provide customer service over these platforms, and even mine them for business intelligence data. Although much…
Success in business hinges on making the right decisions at the right time. You can only make smart decisions, however, if you also have the insights you need at the right time. When the right time is right now, outlier detection can help you chart a better course for your company as storms approach –…