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FREE Webinar: Actionable Analytics – Acquiring, processing and utilizing social data to inform future business decisions. Business is a race in which the companies that best understand their customer will win.

FREE Webinar: Actionable Analytics – Acquiring, processing and utilizing social data to inform future business decisions

Social data analytics provides an unprecedented opportunity to gain an in-depth view of your customer, and develop actionable insights which drive future business decisions and strategy. Join us for our free webinar with Whole Foods, McDonalds and Adobe on Thursday 13th February at 12 noon EST (5pm GMT). The 45-minute live debate will delve into this ever-increasing critical area of business and will help you learn how to: Utilize data analytics to tap into your digital grapevine: Generate valuable customer insights embedded within the wealth of social dataEstablish a framework of social insight delivery: Ensure you distribute the actionable insight you build to the relevant business departmentsIntegrate social data to augment cross organizational processes: Align both your social and traditional data analytics to help generate a comprehensive customer profile Experts panellists include;

New Edition of StoryCentric Focuses on the Role of Data in Multiplatform Storytelling. Global Campus 21. Visual Analysis Software for Data. Statistics. Measuring the Progress of Societies. {*style:<i> </i>*} The OECD World Forum on “Statistics, Knowledge and Policy” was held in Busan, Korea on 27-30 October 2009. This OECD World Forum focused on Charting Progress, Building Visions, Improving Life and attracted high level participants with a mixture of politicians and policy makers, opinion leaders, Nobel laureates, statisticians, academics, journalists and representatives of civil society from many countries.

The 3 rd OECD World Forum, was organised by the OECD and the Government of Korea (Korean National Statistical Office). The Forum focused on three major questions: What does progress mean for our societies? The forum gathered close to 2000 participants from more than 100 countries including; politicians and policy makers, opinion leaders, Nobel laureates, statisticians, academics, journalists and representatives of civil society. {*style:<i> </i>*} Some of the confirmed speakers included: Fabrizio Barca, Director General, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Italy Dr. 37 Data-ish Blogs You Should Know About. You might not know it, but there are actually a ton of data and visualization blogs out there.

37 Data-ish Blogs You Should Know About

I'm a bit of a feed addict subscribing to just about anything with a chart or a mention of statistics on it (and naturally have to do some feed-cleaning every now and then). In a follow up to my short list last year, here are the data-ish blogs, some old and some new, that continue to post interesting stuff. Data and Statistics By the Numbers - Column from The New York Times visual Op-ed columnist, Charles Blow, who also used to be NYT's graphics director.Data Mining - Matthew Hurst, scientist at Microsoft's MSN, also the co-creator of BlogPulse.Statistical Modeling - We might disagree on certain things, but Andrew's blog is one of the few active pure statistics blogs.The Numbers Guy - Data-minded reporting from Carl Bialik of the Wall Street Journal.Basketball Geek - Like statistical analysis and basketball? Statistical/Analytical Visualization Maps. Final Forum Home. PGIS bookstore.

Free GIS mapping software program applications and resources. Information aesthetics - Information Visualization & Visual Communication.