Category / Analytics, Data and AI

My first steps toward understanding AI and the technologies around it, plus an article, a book and two videos to get you started

Quandl lets you view and download commodity prices, stock data, market volumes and alternative data such as satellite imagery

How to use the USDA’s PSD Online database to get production, trade, consumption and stock data for any commodity, with sugar as the example

Companies applying analytics, sensors, drones and satellite imagery to agriculture, from precision farming to global crop forecasts

How big data and analytics are transforming agriculture, the seven advantages I see and the leadership challenge they bring

Thomas Davenport’s HBR article on why executives at every level and in every industry need to build analytical skills

Thomas C. Redman’s HBR article on data credibility, what poor data costs companies and how to ensure data quality

Deloitte’s message to CEOs on their role in building a data analytics culture and the key questions they should be able to answer

Highlights from IBM’s seventh study on big data and analytics in companies with more than 1,000 employees across 90 countries

Deloitte’s Analytics Trends 2015 on how analytics is moving into the mainstream of business decision making worldwide