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Data is the New Soil
David McCandless gave a TED talk in July 2010 that focused on pairing data and design to help visualize patterns. In his talk, McCandless takes subsets of data (Facebook status updates, spending,...
View ArticleTaking Responsibility for Quality Data
Thomas C. Redman recently wrote about data quality on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his post, he creates a vignette of an executive who finds an error in data provided by the "Widgets...
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What's Left Behind When Your Project Is Over
The 2012 Olympics are over and it will be another four years until we can all discuss how much we hate NBC's coverage.  Susy Jackson of the Harvard Business Review blog points out in her blog post...
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Agile Series Part 2: Stakeholder Satisfaction
When learning something new, people often try to relate the new information back to something they already know in order to help make sense of the new concept or idea. As a psychology major now...
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Data Myths
In a post for The Guardian's Datablog, Jonathan Grey explores the rise of data journalism. Data journalism is "a journalistic process based on analyzing and filtering large data sets for the purpose of...
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Database Validation Best Practices
Database validation is an important step in ensuring that you have quality data in your historical database. I've talked before about the importance of collecting project data and what you can do with...
View ArticleHow to Use Big Data to Improve Your Software Projects
In the recent Washington Post article How the Obama Campaign Won the Race for Voter Data, Joel Kowsky writes about how the 2012 Obama campaign used analytics to improve their campaign strategy, and to...
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Data-Less Decision Making
I rather enjoyed the Google Analytics April Fools prank earlier this month, Welcome to Data-Less Decision Making on Analytics Academy. Though satirical, this video brings to light an important reason...
View ArticleQSM Releases SLIM-Suite 10.3
We are pleased to anounce the release of SLIM-Suite 10.3, the latest version of our flagship software management tool suite. The pandemic has put enormous pressure on business leaders to utilize...
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Base Size Unit vs. Function Unit
 What is the difference between the Base Size Unit and the Function Unit?The Function Unit is a measure of software size, which represents the project scope or the amount of work to be done. It makes...
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