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· Self-service analytics: requisite skills<br />
· Making wise decisions with the IoT<br />
· Cloud-supported machine learning<br />
· Corporate profile: Steelcase Inc.<br />
Executive Edge<br />
Mu Sigma strategy<br />
guru Tom Pohlmann on<br />
analytics job one:<br />
closing the data-to-<br />
decisions gap<br />
INSIDE STORY<br />
Humans vs. machines<br />
Can data scientists (the darlings of<br />
the Analytics Era) and other knowledge<br />
workers who are on almost every com-<br />
pany’s wish list in terms of employment<br />
really be an endangered species and in<br />
danger of going the way of the dodo bird<br />
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