Day 3 Week 6 of the CORTEX MBAnalytics

[Steve Bennett]

Continuing week 6 - part of the 60 day information management refresher course from the CORTEX. The CORTEX Master of Business Analytics Week 6, Day 3 Theme: Analytics In The Real World Week 6, Wednesday This week's theme is application - not in the sense of a computer program - rather in the sense of 'use it or lose it'. This week we look at how analytics is being applied in the real world. WATCH Today's task: Rich reward for data miners 10 minutes 'Rich reward for data miners', by Glenn Mulcaster, The Sydney Morning Herald, September 26, 2011 Key takeout: Why should an organisation pay for a small team of analysts when it can run a competition that attract some of the greatest analytic minds in the world. This is not a one-off example. Netflix and others have generated serious returns from other competitions. As always, comments, questions and ideas are all welcome. The MBAnalytics is just one part of the Business Intelligence CORTEX - a community of Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Analytics and Project Management professionals in Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Membership is free and the forums are very active with over 20,000 posts offering a uniquely Australasian viewpoint.



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