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The month before the birth of my first child, a coworker shared a tweet with me where a couple leveraged Glow Baby app data to visualize the paternity leave experience in an augmented reality software. The Tableau nerd in me couldn’t resist, and I set out to collect and visualize my own paternity leave data in my preferred software, Tableau.
Music has many benefits – from improving memory to reducing depression and stress. Why not let it benefit your digital transformation efforts? We wrapped up the top hits and best practices to guide your ERP implementation project to top the charts.
Change management is our business.
You may be wondering, “what do dolphins and whales have to do with data and analytics?” Academic David Feeny first made the comparison between dolphins and whales with business by explaining that dolphins surface frequently to take short breaths and maintain contact with the rest of the pod. Whales on the other hand stay submerged for longer, meaning when they need to take a breath it takes more effort and is longer. Dolphins, not whales, set the example for sustaining change.
The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) was signed into law a year ago on March 11, 2021. The plan, which includes $350 billion dollars in emergency funding, is dedicated to mitigating pandemic impacts for state, local, territorial, and Tribal governments. While now a year old, there is still funding available and recipients still have until December 31, 2024, to assign funds and until December 31, 2026, to spend them.
The ability to match data that is similar but not exactly the same can improve data quality, usability, and accuracy. With the fuzzy matching algorithm, it can happen fast.
Leaders often ask, “How do I know my efforts to drive adoption are working?” The short answer is, you get what you measure. The longer answer is monitoring change readiness and measuring its impact in a structured, purposeful manner will help you:
Holley Schramski, the former associate vice president of finance at the University of Georgia, recognized that her team was performing a lot of manual labor for their data processes. She recalls her associate controller being frustrated as Excel kept crashing while she tried to wrap up financial statements. Schramski said that UGA was “never going to evolve from a transactional operation to becoming more analytical unless we stopped all of our manual processes and started automating processes for our team.”
Snowflake, a modern data management platform, allows you to securely share and manage data. Snowflake works as a data warehouse or data lake platform or as an integrated component in your larger, existing platform. Snowflake is often used as a data source for modern analytics tools. Scalability, affordability, seamless implementation and ease of maintenance are just a few ways Snowflake shines above its competition and legacy data management platforms.
Key among concerns with Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 is its rate of contagion and deadly effects on those susceptible. Recognizing that every day matters in flattening the curve, the Ohio Department of Health is increasing transparency to citizens, and using data to show if social distancing, raised awareness for proper hand-washing, travel restrictions, and other measures are buying more time for the state health systems as they prepare for potential waves and surges of the disease.