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The latest analytics articles plus updates on events are on the Meta Analysis blog
Communication
- Talk Analytics with Executives: 4 Things You Must Understand
- Talk Analytics with Executives – Revisited
- Better Writing for Data Analysts
- Defending Your Analytics: Handling Hecklers
- We’re Not Artists: The Craft of Influencing Decision Makers
- Analytics BS: 3 Questions to Spot It
Management
- What Big-Data Stories & Barbie Have in Common
- 5 Tips for Finding Talent for Your Data Analytics Team (by Chris Nerney)
- FTC & the Data Brokers: Why You Should Care
- Kiss & Make Up With IT
- Analytics Is Harder Than It Looks
- Gut-Feel Isn't Good Enough
- Grow Your Own Analytics Talent
- Text Analytics, Big Data and the Keys to ROI
- Spare Me Tales of Your Massive Data Cluster
- It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No, It's Just a Data Scientist.
- Analytics: What’s Passion Got to Do with It?
- Planning for ROI in Text Analytics
- Executives Don’t Like Analytics: Why Business Isn’t Data-Driven
- Crossing the Language Chasm: Extracting Information from Foreign-Language Text
- Text Analytics WIIFM (What’s in it for Me?)
- Why IT Doesn’t “Get” Analytics (and Why the Time is Right for Change)
- Analytics, Schmanalytics! How to Evaluate an Analyst
- No Smokescreen Area: Tips for Hiring Analysts
- Was Edison “Agile”? Extracting New Value from Old Techniques
- The CEO Wants Analytics! Now What? [article]
- The CEO Wants Analytics! Now What? [slide presentation for business analysts]
Analytics Skills
- Be a Text Analytics Heretic
- Selecting Big Data Sources for Predictive Analytics
- Is There Madness in Your Methods?
- Bluffer's Guide to NoSQL Databases
- Audio Seminar: Powering Predictive Analytics with Big Data
- Open Data: Just a Slice of the Pie
- Rising to the Challenge of Cross-lingual Sentiment Analysis
- Text Analytics is Hard (That's What She Said)
- Cross-lingual text analytics: a new frontier in linguistics
- Better than Brute Force: Big Data Analytics Tips
- Big Data Blasphemy: Why Sample?
- The Truth About Social Media Analytics
- Design by the People: Testing reveals the most effective web designs.
- Know Your S#*!: Maximize Web Conversion with A/B Testing
- Data Mining Fundamentals: Khabaza’s 9 Laws of Data Mining
- Data Mining Fundamentals: Terms You Must Know
- Testing to Sell: Meta’s Crusade for Proof in Web Design
Industry
- Secrets of a Software Vendor
- Open Data: What's It Hiding?
- Protecting Public Data
- Social Media Analytics Expert Interview Series
- The STEM Profession that Women Dominate
- My Trans-analytic Voyage: Text Analytics on Both Sides of the Atlantic
- Big Data Analytics: Reframing Political Campaigns
- Is Analytics “Different”?: 2 Lessons in Sales from The Mayflower Madam
- What's Standing Between You and Your Quota? 5 Myths That Undermine Analytic Software Sales
- Self-Promoters Score! Why Analysts Can’t be Shy Anymore
- So You Want to be a Data Analyst