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Self-Service Analytics: Are They Over or Have They Even Started?

Benny Benford

Founder, Datent

Current iterations of “self-service analytics” fall short of the agility and effectiveness that modern organizations need to stay ahead of the data curve.

6 Strategies to Assess and Advance Data Governance Maturity

Funke Bishi

Associate Director, Data & Business Analysis, RBC Capital Markets

Explore the challenges of data governance and its value proposition for data leaders. Here are six successful strategies that go beyond regulatory compliance in establishing an effective data governance framework.

Proving Impact and ROI for Data Governance

Wendy Batchelder

Chief Data Officer, Salesforce

Getting business leaders on board with data governance is easier with the right plans and metrics in place to tell the story about its impact and ROI.

Colm OGrada

Five Ways to Find an Organizational Voice for Data Ethics

Colm OGrada

Colm O'Grada

Director of Data and Analytics, Tines

Colm O’Grada of Tines offers five best practices on how to bring data ethics to life in your organization.

Transformational or Operational CDAO: Which One Are You?

Heidi Lanford

Chief Data and Analytics Officer

Heidi Lanford categorizes Chief Data and Analytics Officers (CDAOs) in two categories - Transformational and Operational.

7 Tips for More Effective Data Storytelling

Multiple Contributors

Multiple Authors

Learn how to engage your audience and become a more effective data storyteller with these seven critical tips.

The Value of Data Governance: Where’s the ROI?

Benny Benford

Founder, Datent

Demonstrating ROI from risk reduction can be a challenge, but there are many ways that data governance creates value.

Removing AI and Technology Adoption Obstacles in Education

Lena Winfree

Co-Founder, Rachel + Winfree Data Consulting

Educators need a fresh approach to keep up with technology and AI in the classroom. These five tips can help break down barriers to adopting new technology like AI.

A Data Leader’s Guide to AI Success

Multiple Contributors

Multiple Authors

Unlock the potential of enterprise AI. Our roundtable discusses strategies for data leaders to achieve success in the world of AI.

Why predictive analytics is the future of the retail economy

Sudhir Kulkarni

Experienced Practice Leader and CTO

Sudhir Kulkarni makes the case for why predictive analytics should be embraced as the future in retail businesses allowing for more informed decision making and better KPIs.

Merav Yuravlivker

Creating a Data Governance Culture

Merav Yuravlivker

Merav Yuravlivker

CEO and Co-Founder, Data Society

Merav Yuravlivker, Data Society CEO and Co-Founder discusses why successful data governance requires data literacy, a strategy, and a shift in culture.

Nate Mayfield

Where Governance Meets Stewardship: Getting to Trusted Data Faster

Nate Mayfield

Nate Mayfield

Vice President, Strategy & Operations, Applications Service Excellence, Oracle

How do you create a data foundation everyone can trust? For Oracle’s Nate Mayfield, it’s a combination of a data governance team and a data stewardship team, both with a charter to act quickly when data quality is out of variance.

A 5-Step Framework to Do Machine Learning Right

Maya Mikhailov

Founder, SAVVI AI

SAVVI AI founder Maya Mikhailov argues for the breakthrough benefits of machine learning – and provides a framework to decide if the right conditions are present.

Author, Krystal Tsosie

The Ethics of Data Collection and Data Mining

Author, Krystal Tsosie

Krystal Tsosie

Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, ASU

Krystal Tsosie, Ethics and Policy Director at the Native BioData Consortium and incoming faculty at Arizona State University School of Life Sciences, discusses how data collection and mining can become more ethical and how data leaders should approach creating and maintaining ethical standards for compiling and sharing data.

What Data Leaders Should Know About Knowledge Graphs

Amy Hodler

Senior Director, Graph Evangelism and Programs, RelationalAI

Data leaders stand to benefit greatly from knowledge graphs once they understand the applications, benefits, and how to promote them internally.

Seven Ways to Improve Health Equity with Data

Pearl Isawumi

MD, MPH, Data Leader

Improving health equity starts with properly utilizing data. These seven approaches can help health care organizations achieve this goal.

AI Ethics and Regulation: A Guide for CDOs

Mark Palmer

Board Advisor, Correlation One, Data Visualization Society, Talkmap

Technology entrepreneur and executive Mark Palmer discusses the ethics of AI and what data leaders everywhere can take away from the proposed EU AI Act, and offers 5 actions they can take today.

3 Ways Data Governance Drives Business Impact

Alessandro Pregnolato

Vice President of Data, Preply

Preply VP of Data Alessandro Pregnolato describes three ways that good data governance benefits organizations and drives personal success for data leaders.

3 Data Priorities for Any Startup

Alessandro Pregnolato

Vice President of Data, Preply

Preply VP of Data Alessandro Pregnolato argues for the primacy of a data strategy and team in startup organizations and shares three priorities to build data leadership.

Candra McRae

Executive Data Engagement and the Democratization of Analytics

Candra McRae

Candra McRae

Lead Solution Engineer, Tableau Software

Candra McRae looks into democratized analytics and what the trend means for data leaders.