{"id":1893,"date":"2019-03-31T00:29:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T00:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hthirukkumaran.com\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2019-03-31T00:30:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T00:30:11","slug":"big-data-analytics-mindset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hthirukkumaran.com\/index.php\/big-data-analytics-mindset\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data &#038; Analytics Mindset"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>&#8220;Mindset first, skill set next&#8221;<\/strong> as one of my managers said during early days of my career. Companies are looking to instill a data-driven culture at various levels in the organization. Here are few thoughts to ponder upon on if you are planning to bring in the data-driven cultural change in your organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Data Then, Data Now<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data was used to explain the past. Data had a very short life-cycle and it was used for causal analysis. Data is now being used to predict future. Data is now being used to find correlation and data is now becoming a fountain of innovation to come up with better products and services and better ways to serve customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Everything is data<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Days are gone where data was expected to be in structured format of properly formatted text. Everything is data. The first step is quantification where you come up with a may to measure what you want to track. Once quantification is done then work on standardization. Collect the data consistently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Value<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no use in doing a task unless we realize the value of doing it. Data is valuable only when it becomes a competitive advantage and if we are able to extract valuable information from it. Understand the value of data and use it to get the best out of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Start with these three simple thoughts to instill data-driven culture in your company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mindset first, skill set next&#8221; as one of my managers said during early days of my career. Companies are looking to instill a data-driven culture at various levels in the organization. Here are few thoughts to ponder upon on if you are planning to bring in the data-driven cultural change in your organization. Data Then, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hthirukkumaran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hthirukkumaran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hthirukkumaran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hthirukkumaran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hthirukkumaran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hthirukkumaran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1894,"href":"https:\/\/hthirukkumaran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/1894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hthirukkumaran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hthirukkumaran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hthirukkumaran.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}