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Melissa Lowe Melissa Lowe
Updated on April 19, 2024

3 Ways Retail Brands Can Make the Most of Customer Data

Shoppers leave behind data breadcrumbs, which companies can harness to add value to the customer experience.

Barbara Tallent Barbara Tallent
Updated on April 19, 2024

The Internet Isn’t Perfect. How Can We Fix It?

This internet optimist believes that a combination of legislation, software and consumer choice can deliver us to a more ethical life online.

Julius Černiauskas Julius Černiauskas
Updated on April 19, 2024

Why Your Company Needs a Data Ethicist

As data collection practices and the technologies that facilitate them grow at a breakneck pace, companies would be wise to invest in specialized professionals who limit the risks posed by these new solutions.

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Edward Hearn Edward Hearn
Updated on April 19, 2024

Fix Your Broken Research Methods!

Data-driven research is crucial to understanding the marketplace, yet the replication crisis suggests much big-data analysis may be worthless. Fortunately, a simple tweak to research methods can undo much of the harm.

Matt Brown Matt Brown
Updated on April 19, 2024

FiveTran: Strengths and Weaknesses

An overview of this new data integration tool.

Edward Hearn Edward Hearn
Updated on April 19, 2024

How Data Visualizations Can Be Misleading

There are lies, damned lies and statistics. And then there are data visualizations.

Scott Jensen Scott Jensen
Updated on April 19, 2024

Can Data Be a Crystal Ball for the Job Market?

We’re working on it.

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Grant Shirk Grant Shirk
Updated on April 19, 2024

4 Principles to Inspire a Truly Data-Driven Culture

To start, stop neglecting your data.

Todd Shepherd Todd Shepherd
Updated on April 19, 2024

Data Belongs to Everyone

When each user in an organization views data as a personal resource, they can get overly comfortable modifying it until it’s polluted. To avoid this problem, recalibrate your approach so that data is considered a shared resource.

Edward Hearn Edward Hearn
Updated on April 19, 2024

Correlation Is Not Causation. Except When It Is.

Anyone with even a passing familiarity with data and statistics has heard the old maxim “correlation is not causation.” If that's true, though, why use statistics at all?