An analytics team can do more than a single analytics leader can accomplish alone, but one analytics person is better than none.
Today Facebook launched a new insights product called "Topic Data" in the U.S. and U.K. with the help of brand analytics leader DataSift.
And Scott Kurth, who had been VP of client solutions at SVDS, is now also a strategy and analytics leader at Apple.
They include Sanjay Mathur, who was a co-founder and CEO of SVDS, who now describes himself as a strategy and analytics leader at Apple on LinkedIn.
Mayor Landrieu, speaking of his analytics leader Oliver Wise, said, "Oliver not only helps find innovative, data-driven solutions that make government more efficient and more effective, he also tracks the city's progress to hold us accountable to the people of New Orleans on everything from potholes to blight to crime". .
It has invested more than $150 million of capital into data-oriented companies, including SPSS, the predictive analytics leader that went public and was later sold to IBM; Jigsaw, a "data-as-a-service" company acquired by Salesforce.com; and InfoArmy, The EchoNest, The Retail Equation, Insights One, 1010 Data and Hadapt.
Analytical leaders know that they must pull and align a number of levers to ensure the success of any analytics implementation.
Indeed, it was only in April of this year that Uptake announced its Series C. "We're on a growth trajectory now where there is virtually nothing standing in our way from being the predictive analytics market leader across every heavy industry, from oil & gas to mining and beyond," said Uptake Co-founder and CEO, Brad Keywell in a statement.
Analysis was inductive and interpretive, based on the content of the interviews; in line with the inductive analytic tradition, project leaders were frequently asked to define terms that are otherwise taken for granted as a shared understanding, such as 'disease management' [see Table 4.
