Insights & Research

You might be mistaken in thinking that this is the title of my Master’s thesis but the point behind the complex title is to portray the complex relationship that exists across different parts of an or[...] Read More

Over the course of the past 3 months I’ve conducted in-depth research with senior analytics professionals in South Africa. The research group has been spread across a number of industries and a variet[...] Read More

As a machine learning practitioner, there was one graphic that stayed with me more than any other in 2016, and not because it delighted me. The Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2016 was tr[...] Read More

This article was originally published in CIO Review. Here is the link. Read More

I’m not really one for writing articles, this is my first published post. I can talk non stop, writing on the other hand, I struggle with. I get worried that it won’t make sense if I type it out (A br[...] Read More

Ahead of the coming Chief Data Officer Forum, Financial Services happening on June 22-23, 2016, we spoke to Marc Alvarez, Chief Data Officer at Mizuho Securities USA and one of the distinguished speak[...] Read More

Change To become modified, to shift from one state to another state; to become different. In my personal life, change always seems to be painful, though it generally results in progress, even if there[...] Read More

Despite the professed benefits, there remains a real uncertainty around how to leverage the technology and ecosystem to achieve business value from big data analytics. Many stakeholders understand the[...] Read More

Being a Chief Data Officer in the current climate is a rather interesting place to be, it can feel a little like dancing on quicksand while you have to learn to juggle wriggling snakes. So in order to[...] Read More

Gartner defines “Dark Data” as the ‘information assets organisations collect, process and store during regular business activities, but generally fail to use for other purposes’. A lot of dark data is[...] Read More