Tag: Data Literacy

What Are Citizen Data Scientists and Can They Improve the Quality of Business Intelligence?

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November 25, 2020

What Are Citizen Data Scientists?

Citizen Data Scientists represent a new breed of business analysts – a group of individuals with diverse business responsibilities and training, who wield sophisticated analytical tools, and employ complex methods of analysis to improve business results – all without the training or assistance of data scientists or IT team members. Citizen Data Scientists are business users who leverage the knowledge and skill they have developed through professional training and business roles to navigate business intelligence and advanced analytical tools to answer business questions, identify trends and patterns and develop new competitive strategies to support business decisions.

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Be Sure You Support Your Citizen Data Scientists!

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November 9, 2020

Getting Started on the Citizen Data Scientist Path!

If you follow technology publications and predictions, you know that Citizen Data Scientists are the big news for business. By transforming business users into Citizen Data Scientists, the business can leverage the professional skills and knowledge of an individual team member and combine that knowledge with data analytics to get the best answers, forecast and predict, solve problems and identify business opportunities.

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How Do I Ensure Citizen Data Scientist Success?

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October 19, 2020

Identify Citizen Data Scientists and Provide the Support They Need to Succeed

When your business decides to begin a Citizen Data Scientist initiative, it faces numerous challenges but the resulting benefits the enterprise will reap from this program are undeniable. With the right preparation, every business can successfully enable this type of initiative and provide augmented analytics to improve collaboration, data literacy and digital transformation in the organization.

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A Citizen Data Scientist Project Requires Culture Change!

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October 6, 2020

When a business chooses to follow the guidance of Gartner and embrace the Citizen Data Scientist initiative to transform business users and provide analytical tools for all team members, it must approach the initiative with appropriate planning.

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Don’t Overlook Training for Citizen Data Scientists!

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September 17, 2020

What is a Citizen Data Scientist and How Do I Train and Transition My Team?

Citizen Data Scientists…the predicted future of the organization! Gartner and other technology research firms have predicted the rise of Citizen Data Scientists as a way to complement and optimize data scientists and to democratize data and improve data literacy across the enterprise.

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White Paper – Preparing Your Business for Digital Transformation (Dx) and Data Literacy

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September 4, 2020

White Paper - Preparing Your Business for Digital Transformation (Dx) and Data Literacy

When combined, Digital Transformation and Data Literacy provide a rich and profound value to the organization. A properly structured initiative will prepare the business for an ever-changing market and business environment and make the business and its team members agile, nimble, and capable of responding to change. The initiative, once employed, will provide many benefits to offset the efforts involved in completing the initiative.

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NLP and Contextual Search Analytics!

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August 27, 2020

How Can Clickless Analysis and NLP Support Business User Analytics?

An advanced analytics solution that is designed for augmented analytics, must be easy enough for the average business user to achieve results without IT skills or the skills of a data scientist. When a business user can leverage clickless analytics search capability, the user can achieve rapid, clear results and use those results to solve problems, share information and optimize opportunities for the business.

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White Paper: Digital Transformation Requires Commitment and Five Points of Integration

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August 11, 2020

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Whether a business addresses or ignores the Digital Transformation movement, it is here to stay and Dx will change markets and competition. If a business truly wants to embrace Dx, it must be willing to take the necessary steps and engage in a review that touches all corners of the organization. To plan and execute a comprehensive, effective Digital Transformation (Dx) project, the business must consider five points of integration including Technology including Infrastructure, Software, Hardware, Network, Mobility, Enterprise Culture including Process and Analytics, Team Members, Suppliers, Partners, Vendors and Stakeholders, Customers.
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Smarten Announces an Innovative eLearning Course, ‘Be a Citizen Data Scientist – Aspire, Inspire, Become’

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August 8, 2020

Smarten is pleased to announce the introduction of its eLearning Workshop, ‘Be a Citizen Data Scientist – Aspire, Inspire, Become‘. This online course is designed to provide a solid foundation for one’s business and, more importantly, for those members of the team who may be considering as early adopters or champions of the Citizen Data Scientist transformation within their organization.

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Can My Business Users Really Become Citizen Data Scientists?

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August 5, 2020

What is a Citizen Data Scientist and How Do I Create Them in My Business?

What is a Citizen Data Scientist and what is the role of a Citizen Data Scientist? It isn’t as complicated as you might think. A Citizen Data Scientist is a business user working in a professional capacity within an enterprise – one who is collaborative and curious by nature and willing and ready to adopt augmented analytics tools to prepare and analyze data and use that data to gain insight into business issues and opportunities. The role of a Citizen Data Scientist is to interact with and liaise with IT and data scientists to define use cases and refine data output to be used in making fact-based decisions.

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