Tagged: data analysis

healthcare technology

CIHI using analytics to improve Canadian healthcare system

Buckley Smith

Published: May 2nd, 2019

SAS Global Forum: Jim Goodnight emphasizes importance of harnessing data to change the world

DALLAS - In a world teeming with data, being able to harness that data will be essential to making monumental advancements across myriad fields. This is the idea that Jim Goodnight, founder and

Published on: April 29th, 2019 Buckley Smith
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Hashtag Trending: More robots less workers; Secretly rating shoppers; MacBook microphone detaches

Automation may be replacing human hires at Amazon, companies are secretly rating shoppers and the newest MacBook’s microphone detaches for privacy, but is it useful? Listen to the latest Hashtag Trending HERE! First

Published on: November 6th, 2018 Meagan Simpson

Jump on AI bandwagon before it starts writing poetry, experts advise CIOs

Montebello, Que. - Get ready for artificial intelligence to take a leap forward and have a more important role in society and your business in general, two of Canada's leading machine learning researchers

Published on: September 18th, 2017 Brian Jackson

Yahoo, Weight Watchers, Globe and Mail sages share analytics insights in webinar

If the modern content creator feels like they’re drowning in a sea of customer data, that’s because they are – companies and their marketing departments have more opportunities to track, measure, amplify, optimize

Published on: February 24th, 2016 Christine Wong

Canada’s influence apparent on Twitter’s 2015 year in review

Its 300 million or so active users might be a far cry from Facebook's 1.44 billion, but Twitter's value in capturing the online reaction to whatever is happening around the world is on

Published on: December 11th, 2015 Eric Emin Wood

Blue Jays, Star Wars, U.S. election among Facebook’s top Canadian trends in 2015

Facebook has come a long way since 2014, when it first added "trending topics" to users' feeds. And as 2015, its first full year of letting users know they weren't alone in freaking

Published on: December 9th, 2015 Eric Emin Wood
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Copy Xerox’s data analysis model for hiring success

By Chris Hebert, TechnologyAdvice Hiring people is about people, right? That may be true, but, in a sense, when you are hiring many people in a relatively short span of time, each of

Published on: July 16th, 2014 Michael Cayley
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How hospitals use business intelligence to care for their patients

For John Backhouse, improving how hospitals care for their patients isn’t just a matter of providing better medical care - it’s also about a better use of data. As the executive director of

Published on: June 15th, 2014 Candice So
Prescriptive Analytics

Big data and self-service – A Q&A with Information Builders’ Jake Freivald

With business intelligence driving more and more decisions within companies both large and small, New York-based Information Builders has been working to give its customers more “self-service” options. That mantra was repeated during

Published on: June 12th, 2014 Candice So

Information Builders launches tool for Internet of Things

ORLANDO – Information Builders has announced a new product designed to give businesses “a single pane of glass” for monitoring and running their applications. Based in New York, the business intelligence company already

Published on: June 10th, 2014 Candice So
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Information Builders providing ‘self-service’ analytics

Updated on June 12 at 11:55 a.m. ET with analyst comments. ORLANDO - Information Builders has launched a new way for businesses to analyze their data – but it’s not just geared towards

Published on: June 10th, 2014 Candice So

How the best marketers optimize their campaigns

If marketers want to succeed at attracting customers and generating sales, they need to optimize, according to a new survey from Adobe Systems Inc. In a survey of about 1,000 marketers from North

Published on: June 3rd, 2014 Candice So
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12 must-have Google tools for data-driven marketing

Are we in the golden age of marketing? Google says we are, as digital technology not only gives marketers a richer canvas on which to exercise their creativity, but also the data that

Published on: May 5th, 2014 Brian Jackson
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Microsoft builds out data platform with SQL Server update

Microsoft Corp. has unveiled its plans for its data platform by rolling out a number of new services – and one of them is an update to its SQL Server. On Tuesday, Microsoft

Published on: April 17th, 2014 Candice So