Every business faces the challenge of managing and using data in a way that is meaningful, accurate and easy for users. To meet objectives, plan strategies and analyze information, the average enterprise must juggle best-of-breed, legacy systems, and many other data repositories that sometimes seem to hide data from even the most gifted analysts and IT staff members.
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.
What is business intelligence? Business intelligence is a body of intelligence gleaned from data and information within your business enterprise. It is comprised of the strategies, data and technologies and brought together for the purpose of data analytics. BI technologies are used to provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations and to help make fact-based decisions.
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.
With the pace of technology change and the demands of consumers and business users, the average IT department in an enterprise is often challenged to deliver the wide range of services required by the company. From infrastructure management to software development, data integration initiatives, reporting, and upgrades, IT is always too busy and too short staffed.
