Category: Analytics Training

DMAIPH & Cirrolytix present Big Data Analytics 101 in Cebu on October 16!

Big Data was supposed to make things easier, but more often than not, it simply overwhelms us.

This program is for you if you feel like you’re drowning in data and unsure which data to use to drive your company initiatives.

The truth is that the amount of data available to help run your business is greater than ever before. To effectively use this information, managers must consider the practical side of big data…what matters to you is how do you grow and build a team to make smarter decisions.

Much of the information out there just discusses the promise of the data deluge. The challenge is not the volume of data but rather the judgment needed to use it.

This seminar goes beyond the qualitative side of data analysis to explore proven quantitative techniques and technologies for identifying, inventorying and integrating data, so that more informed and reliable business decisions can be made.

With that in mind, DMAIPH has created a learning session entitled: Big Data Analytics 101. Join us on October 16 in Cebu for the next run of the program.

Our resource speakers: Dan Meyer, Executive Director of the Analytics Association of the Philippines and Doc Ligot, Founder and CEO of Cirrolytix Analytics Consulting Services. Between them, Dan and Doc have over 40 years of Big Data Analytics experience in banking, finance, education, training and data science.

Learning Session Objectives:

  1. Apply Best Techniques and Cutting Edge Technologies to Organize, Interpret, and Summarize Quantitative Data
  2. Create a Process to Analyze Data and Identify Patterns Not Apparent at First Glance
  3. Master the art of Data Storytelling using Predictive Analytics

In this session, your organization will be able to use:

  • Specific skills to effectively frame the problem you’re addressing to uncover key opportunities and drive growth
  • Critical marketing steps of orientation necessary before engaging tools and technology
  • Strategies to simply and quickly amplify decision making by separating the signal from the noise
  • A framework for asking the right questions, allowing the ability to link analytics to business strategy

In this session, your participants will be able to:

  • Bring out patterns in data that were not apparent at first glance
  • Identify and explain tools for data analysis
  • Shorten the time between analysis and action to avoid “analysis paralysis”
  • Know how to get from hard data to well-reasoned conclusions
  • Understand the entire Data Value Chain from data collection to data visualization

Who Should Attend: All business professionals who need the basic tools to quantitatively and accurately analyze the mountains of data that come across their desk each minute of every day. Managers of analysts or staff who spend a significant amount of their time collecting, analyzing and reporting data.

Section One Title: Big Data—It’s Not Just Size


  • Ascertain the current state of Big Data Analytics in the Philippines
  • Describe the Importance of Effectively Analyzing Big Data in Business Today
  • Establish Clear Objectives When Analyzing Big Data
  • The Three “I’s” of Big Data Analytics
  • Assess Your Current Analytics Culture

Section Two Title: Unlocking the Data Value Chain with Big Data Analytics



  • Recognize and Apply Various Data Collection Methods
  • The importance of Good Data Governance
  • Identify and Resolve Problems Associated with Data Collection
  • Discuss the difference between Data Warehouses and Data Lakes
  • Utilize Business Intelligence Tools

Section Three Title: Moving from Descriptive Analytics to Predictive

  • Determine and Analyze Risk, Uncertainty, and Probability
  • Spot Patterns, Trends, and Fluctuations Through Correlation, Regression, and Descriptive Statistics
  • Understand when to employ Descriptive, Diagnostic, Predictive or Prescriptive Analytics
  • Build Data Models
  • Exercise: Building a Predictive Model Prototype

Section Four Title: The Art of Presenting Big Data



  • Discuss the concept of Data Visualization
  • Apply a Process to Present Big Data Clearly
  • Select the Appropriate Presentation Format to Communicate Your Findings Effectively to Your Audience
  • Case Study: Using Data Storytelling to determine the Best Team in NBA History
  • Use Findings from Big Data to Drive Decisions Within Your Organization

Too often people dive into the data only to be lost in haze of data. This discussion will be pragmatic and immediately applicable to analysts, professional using analytics and managers of analysts across all industries.

Analytics Training – DMAIPH offers a wide range of analytics centric training solutions for professionals and students via public, in-house, on-site, and academic settings. We tailor each training event to meet the unique needs of the audience. If you need empowerment and skills enhancement to optimize the use of analytics in your organization, we are here to help.

Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to set up a free consultation to learn which of our DMAIPH analytics training solutions is best for you.

 

Analytics Education = Out with the Old, In with the New

Having spent the last 5 years talking about analytics here in the Philippines, it seems we are finally at a place where a significant percentage of leaders and decision-makers are now aware that they need a good analytics strategy for their business to succeed.

Now that we are finally at point where people in power get, we have another challenge. Just because they get it doesn’t mean they know how to enable it.

In fact most of our current solutions to educate and train when it comes to analytics seems to be a bit old fashioned. Analytics evolves much faster then traditional education models can keep up with.

In fact, most people learn analytics on the job. Some attend public trainings. A few receive practical experience while in school. Very few learn in vocational or apprentice like programs.

Almost all the training is done in person, with an expert teaching in a classroom setting.

Most of the training is done by talking theory and doing some exercises on mock data.

Due to data privacy issues, few companies allow employees to get up skill training while using their own data and towards solving real business problems.

To compound the challenge, there are a precious few analytics experts to go around to meet the surging demand for analytics education and training.

When I do the math… 500,000 Filipinos need analytics training in the next 5 years to ensure we can deal with the wave of digital transformation the world in undergoing.

So now what?

It’s easy to say online training is the solution. And it is part. But just filming a training and reshowing it loses a lot of the impact. When learners aren’t engaged they struggle to absorb most of the content.

So live online classes that have an interactive ability are key.

Harnessing the power of YouTube and looking at things like TED talks give us some ideas.

Formal corporate trainings can be supplemented and eventually superseded by meet-up groups and more informal learning sessions.

Formal education has to transition more from the class room and to on the job.

Right now, students spend 90% of their time in classroom and less then 10% on the job working with real data solving real problems. Many schools struggle with educating on analytics topics because they don’t have qualified professors.

Lets flip that around. Let the subject matter experts working in the field do more of the education in the workplace.

That’s just three ideas; Interactive Analytics Talks, Optimizing Meet Up Groups and much more dynamic On the Job training.

What else can we do to shot for the moon?

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Analytics Training – DMAIPH offers a wide range of analytics centric training solutions for professionals and students via public, in-house, on-site, and academic settings. We tailor each training event to meet the unique needs of the audience. If you need empowerment and skills enhancement to optimize the use of analytics in your organization, we are here to help. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to set up a free consultation to learn which of our DMAIPH analytics training solutions is best for you.

HR Analytics in the Era of Digital Transformation: Thinking Through the Box

Later today I  will be speaking to a group of HR Managers and Leaders from the BPO Industry. The gist of my talk will be about the disruption we are all feeling from big data and technology in our businesses.

We can all agree that attracting and retaining top talent has never been harder than it is right now. Years of sustained growth coupled with a progression up the outsourcing value chain have made the integration of analytics into our HR organizations paramount to continued success.

The future looks even more challenging. The way we used to manage talent just don’t work anymore.

New technologies like social networks, applicant tracking systems, business dashboards and business intelligence applications are fundamentally changing the entire talent management process from sourcing to placement to retirement.

These new technologies are enabling HR Managers with vast amounts of big data and providing truly actionable insights which allows a deeper understand of what’s working and what’s not working when it comes to our talent strategy.

Disruption is now the new normal. Cutting edge HR Managers utilize data-driven techniques like; capability analytics, competency acquisition analytics, capacity analytics, employee churn analytics, corporate culture analytics, recruitment channel analytics, leadership analytics and employee performance analytics.

I often say that managing the talent pipeline in the Philippines right now is one of the hardest jobs of the planet.

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In fact, the pressure to deliver results has never been greater as HR managers are increasingly required to demonstrate the return on investment their efforts are contributing to the company’s bottom line.

HR Managers that get this, use analytics to not just succeed in these disruptive times, they thrive. They have figured out how to blend the science that is big data analytics with the art of taking care of people. For the BPO industry to continue enjoying prosperity, HR Managers need to become HR Analytics Managers.

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HR & Recruitment Analytics – The recruitment and retention of top talent is the biggest challenge facing just about every organization. You really have to Think Through The Box to come up with winning solutions to effectively attract, retain and manage talent in the Philippines today.

DMAIPH is a leading expert in empowering HR & Recruitment teams with analytics techniques to optimize their talent acquisition and management processes. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to learn how to get more analytics in your HR & Recruitment process so you can rise to the top in the ever quickening demand for top talent.

Augmented Analytics: A.I., Machine Learning & Predictive Analytics

I recently spoke about Augmented Analytics: Trends in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics.

Much has been made about the business implications of recent, rapid advancements in cognitive computing.

It’s no longer just a pair of eyes scanning data.

We now face the reality of advanced analytics tools to help human knowledge workers glean actionable insight from vast and deep lakes of historical, transactional and machine-generated information.

This is augmented analytics and it includes concepts like predictive analytics, machine learning and A.I. If these are terms you have a general familiarity with, but haven’t spent much time thinking about how the related to big data, analytics and data science, then you should.

Business analytics today can be done with MS Excel and maybe a good BI tool, but business analytics tomorrow will require augmented analytics skills.

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Analytics in the Philippines – The Philippines is at the center of the action when it comes to solutions to the global need for analytics. Blessed with a solid foundation of young, educated and English speaking workforce, companies around the world are look for Filipino analytics talent to fill analytics positions.

DMAIPH was set up to facilitate these solutions and bring the talent and the business together. And that is exactly why I wrote Putting Your Data to Work, the first analytics guidebook designed specifically for the Philippines. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly so we can help you take advantage of this unique global opportunity.

Upcoming DMAIPH Analytics Trainings

Analytics is my passion. I love empowering businesses with the solutions they need to make more data-driven decisions. To that end, I went into business myself to do three things; (1) empower managers and leaders how to better use analytics in their organizations, (2) enable more data-driven business cultures and (3) provide hybrid, virtual staffing solutions. If I can ever be of any assistance, please let me know.

I’d like to invite to a few Upcoming Analytics Events. All events are in Ortigas unless otherwise noted. Here are a few of them:

  • July 11-13 – Three Pillars of Data Science: Analytics, the Cloud and Data Storytelling
  • July 24-25 – Sales Analytics: Achieving Quantity Through Quality
  • August 3 – HR Predictive Analytics: Improving Talent ROI by Predicting Success
  • August 22-23 – Actionable Analytics for Team Leads
  • September 5-6 – Strategic Analytics for HR Managers

Case Studies and Exercises

In each training we will use case studies and group exercises throughout the length of the each class. In these activities, the group is divided into teams and each team will analyze datasets using the principals learned in the various learning sessions. These exercises will also use elements from the case studies as we progress from finding data, to conducting analysis on the data and finally presenting the data.

Learning Investment

Early Bird Exclusive Offer!!

P 6,000.00 + VAT (1 DAY), P 12,000.00 + VAT (2 DAY) or 18,000 + VAT (3 DAY)

Group Rate Discount (Minimum of 5)
Save 1K per person.

Regular Rate:
P 7,300.00 + VAT (1 DAY), P 14,600.00 + VAT (2 DAY) or 21,900 + VAT (3 DAY)

Special Faculty and Student Rates available.

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DMAIPH offers a wide range of analytics centric training solutions for professionals and students via public, in-house, on-site, and academic settings. We tailor each training event to meet the unique needs of the audience.

If you need empowerment and skills enhancement to optimize the use of analytics in your organization, we are here to help. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to set up a free consultation to learn which of our DMAIPH analytics training solutions is best for you.

 

Analytics for Team Leads: Optimize Analytics & Data Science for More Efficient Operations and Engaged Employees

Join DMAIPH, Augment BPO and Sonic Analytics in a two-day analytics training for Team Leads on August 22-23, 2017 in Ortigas! 

Learning Session Description

Every  organization is looking for a way to better understand what’s working and what’s not working in their operations. By using meaningful Big Data Analytics techniques, your leadership efforts can be greatly enhanced.

Learning Session Outline

In the past few years, we have seen the importance of big data, analytics and data science grow at a dizzying pace.

With real-time operations metrics & reporting, we can finally know what’s happening in our business, with our employees and with our customers.

New technologies like social networks, data rich information systems and business intelligence applications are fundamentally changing the entire operations process.

The pressure to deliver results has never been greater. Team Leaders are now more than ever required to demonstrate the return on investment of their efforts are contributing to the bottom line.

Building analytics centric teams and using techniques taught in this training session will empower more data-driven decision making. This will result in both process efficiency and better return in investment in the operations of your business.

With the global demand for analytics-enabled talent booming and the coming threat of A.I. to the BPO industry, Team Leaders need a deep understanding of analytics.

Learning Session Objectives

  1. Apply Best Practice Techniques and Cutting Edge Technologies to Organize, Interpret, and Summarize Quantitative Data
  2. Create a Process to Analyze Data and Identify Patterns Not Apparent at First Glance
  3. Reduce “Analysis Paralysis” and Go from Hard Data to Well-Reasoned Conclusions in Less Time
  4. Understand the implications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in regards to the future of work in the Philippines.

Who Should Attend

This session is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Managers, Supervisors and Team Leads
  • Business Analysts working as part of an Operations Team
  • Leaders who oversee business operations

Learning Session Process

Based on a Set of Key Data Science and Analytics Competencies developed by the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), our learning sessions are designed for Team Leaders and Managers to use both in the Philippines and across the region.

Day One – Doc Ligot, Cirrolytix

Session One – Data Analytics Methods & Algorithms: Capture, clean and inspect data. Evaluate and implement data analytics to derive insights for decision making.

  • Data Warehouses and Data Lakes
  • Blending Data from Across the Organization
  • Cloud Computing and 24/7 Data Access

Session Two – Data Science Engineering Principles for Business Operations: Use analytics software and system engineering principles and modern computer technologies to share findings and tell data stories. Develop analytic processes to improve HR operations.

  • Analytics with Lean and Six Sigma
  • Getting IT: the 3’s I and the 3 T’s of Data
  • Data Science 101: How to Build a Data Science Team

Session Three: Computing Principles for Team Leads: Apply information technology, computational thinking and utilize programming languages to design and develop data analysis processes and techniques.

  • Optimizing the use of MS Excel for Operations
  • Mangement Reporting
  • Working with the IT Team: Buy them Doughnuts

Session Four – Statistical Techniques for Data Analytics: Apply and/or direct the application of statistical concepts and methodologies for data analysis including predictive analytics.

  • Predictive Analytics Case Study: Google’s Top Performer Model
  • Tying Management Reporting to Predictive Models
  • Group Exercise: Build a Top Performer Model

 

Day 2 – Dan Meyer, DMAIPH

Session Five – Domain Knowledge & Application:  Apply domain-related knowledge and insights to effectively contextualize data, achieved by practical experience and exposure to emerging innovations.

  • Overview of Big Data, Analytics & Data Science in the Philippines
  • Cutting Edge Trends in Big Data
  • How to Apply an Analytics Process to Solving Business Problems

Session Six – Data Management & Governance: Develop and implement data management strategies and governance, incorporating privacy, data security, polices and regulations, and ethical considerations.

  • The 5 V’s of Big Data
  • The 3 Tenants of Data Governance
  • Information Security Guidelines for Filipino Businesses

Session Seven – Operational Analytics: Use data analytics and specialized business intelligence techniques for the investigation of all relevant HR data to derive insight in support of decision-making.

  • Competitor Landscapes and Demographic Profiles
  • BI Tools Demo: Tableau Public
  • Social Media Data

Session Eight – Data Visualization & Presentation: Ability to create and communicate compelling and actionable insights from data using visualization and presentation tools and technologies. Build a Business Dashboard prototype.

  • Data Visualization Guidelines
  • Group Exercise: Build a Business Dashboard Prototype
  • The Concept of Enchantment
  • Data Storytelling Case Study: The Best NBA Team of All Time

 

 

Case Studies and Exercises

We will use case studies and group exercises throughout the two-day class. In these activities, the group is divided into teams. Each team will analyze datasets using the principals learned in the various learning sessions. These exercises will also use elements from the case studies as we progress from finding data, to conducting analysis on the data and finally presenting the data.

Training Investment 

Early Bird Rate: P12,000+ VAT (till July 21)

Group Rate: P13,000+ VAT

Regular Rate: P14,600+VAT (starting July 22)

Investment Includes: 

Two-day Analytics for Team Leads Training, Training Materials, AM/PM Snacks, Lunch and Certificate of Completion.

To inquire about this training or to register, please send an email to analytics@dmaiph.com (event organizer) or visit http://www.sonicanalytics.com (marketing partner).

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Augment BPO

The Augment BPO Data Science and Analytics Advocacy Project (Augment BPO) is empowering BPO Companies, Executives, and Workers in the Philippines to prepare for and address the clear and present danger posed by Artificial Intelligence Chatbots (AI Chatbots) to BPO revenue growth and jobs through Data Science and Analytics strategy planning, awareness building and upskill training.

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DMAIPH

Analytics Training – DMAIPH offers a wide range of analytics centric training solutions for professionals and students via public, in-house, on-site, and academic settings. We tailor each training event to meet the unique needs of the audience. If you need empowerment and skills enhancement to optimize the use of analytics in your organization, we are here to help. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to set up a free consultation to learn which of our DMAIPH analytics training solutions is best for you.

Help Me Pick an HR Analytics Topic…

I need your help. I am submitting a proposal to speak at an upcoming HR event being put on by my good friends at Ariva and need help determining which one sounds like the most interesting topic.

Option 1: Insightful HR: Integrating Quality Data towards Better Decisions

Most HR teams are surrounded by an almost limitless wealth of information locked inside business data. However, very few HR teams are consistently able to identify the right data at the right time and even fewer are able to integrate high quality data into the strategic decision-making process. The keys to data-driven decision-making are finding the right balance of analytics Talent, Technique and Technology. I will share a few of tips on how to align the 3 T’s in your business so that HR is able to empower data-driven decision making across the organization. For most HR teams, having good data is the easy part, distilling actionable insights is what makes all the difference

Learning Session Outline:

  1. Learn how to Identify the right data
  2. Discuss how to Inventory the data to gain actionable insights
  3. Discover how to Integrate the data insights into HR decision-making
  4. Unlock the analytics Talent needed for cutting edge HR Analytics
  5. Reveal key analytics Techniques to analyze the data
  6. Master the appropriate analytics Technology to optimize HR decision-making

 

Option 2: Driving Workforce Performance using Balanced Score Card Metrics and Analytics

Balanced Score Cards have been around since the 1990’s. HR teams across the globe have spent millions in trying to perfect ways to positively drive workforce performance based on metrics. So why is this still a topic of interest? Well, in most cases, it is because score cards and the metrics they report keep pointing us problems that are just not going away. Rising attrition, rampant job-hopping, and lower productivity are challenges we are all dealing with. In many cases, though the problem is not what we are reporting with our scorecards but the data we are populating them. As a whole, we are relying on metrics of the past to describe to us how we got here. What we need though is metrics of the future that accurately predict where we are going. I will share with you several of the metrics of the future I use for workforce reporting in my business and how we employ Predictive HR Analytics to optimize our scorecards.

Learning Session Outline:

  1. Discuss HR Metrics of the Past
  2. Learn about HR Metrics of the Future
  3. Discover how to use HR Predictive Analytics
  4. Design a Data-Driven Scorecard Template

 

Option 3: Strategic Problem-solving for Better Decision-making: Analytical and Critical Thinking in Motion

One of the biggest strategic challenges facing HR teams is transforming Big Data into actionable insights. The speed in which decision-makers need to act can often preclude the deep understanding of what value actual lies in the data. This causes misguided strategic planning and under informed decision-making across an organization. The best strategic solutions to quicker and more accurate decisions are found in a well rounded HR analytics approach. One that empowers critical thinking not just from the top, but down the ranks. Business Dashboards and Data Storytelling are two tools that should be used to quickly enable quick decisions in real time. I will show you how HR teams are able to keep one eye on strategic problem-solving while still taking care of daily challenges as they pop up.

Learning Session Outline:

  1. Discuss the challenges of HR Big Data
  2. Share HR Strategic Planning best practices
  3. Learn how to get Real Time HR Data
  4. Design HR Tactical Implementations using Analytics
  5. Align HR with Organization-wide Problem-Solving and Decision-Making

Let me know what you think asap!

Thanks!

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HR & Recruitment Analytics – The recruitment and retention of top talent is the biggest challenge facing just about every organization. You really have to Think Through The Box to come up with winning solutions to effectively attract, retain and manage talent in the Philippines today. DMAIPH is a leading expert in empowering HR & Recruitment teams with analytics techniques to optimize their talent acquisition and management processes. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to learn how to get more analytics in your HR & Recruitment process so you can rise to the top in the ever quickening demand for top talent.

Working on an Analytics Internship/OJT program…

400 Hour DMAIPH Data Science & Analytics OJT/Internship Program

The end goal is to develop a DSA strategy presentation for manager. Start out by getting to know the physical data environment, the tools being used and the main players in the business. Move on to assessing the maturity of the analytics culture and it’s use of DSA talent, techniques and technology. Design a business dashboard prototype and deliver a compelling data story to improve management reporting.

Three tracts for interns… HR Analyst, Business Analyst and Data Analyst.

Interns will spend 60% of the internship at the place of business and 40% of the internship in a classroom. This will facilitate the application of theory to real business data in order to help managers get a better idea of the what’s working and what’s nor when it comes to the data in their business.

Based on the APEC DSA Competencies which is close to being adopted by 20+ countries across Asia and the Pacific as a guide for current and future DSA training efforts.

 Week 1 – Fundamentals of DSA

  • APEC DSA Competencies
  • Company Background
  • How This Internship Works

Exercise: LinkedIn Profile

Company Deliverable: Company/Organization DSA Profiles

Week 2 – DSA in the Philippines

  • Putting Data into Context
  • Emerging Trends
  • Cultures of Innovation

Exercise: Glossary of Data

Company Deliverable: Defining Where the Cutting Edge Is

Week 3 – Data Management & Governance

  • Data Management Macro View
  • Data Governance
  • Information Security

Exercise: Data Survey

Company Deliverable: Info Security Risk Assessment

Week 4 – Data Analytics Methods & Algorithms

  • Data Management Micro View
  • The Right Data
  • Machine Learning

Exercise: Who’s Who of Data in the Business

Company Deliverable: Data MVPs

Week 5 – Data Science Engineering Principles

  • Data Map
  • Identify Right App
  • Feedback Loop

Exercise: A Visio Data Map

Company Deliverable: Map of Business Data Lake

Week 6 – Computing and Computational Thinking

  • MS Excel
  • Query Data
  • Programming Languages

Exercise: Top 10 Excel Tips Video

Company Deliverable: Top Ten Data Tips

Week 7 – Statistical Techniques

  • Getting IT
  • Analytics Maturity Model
  • Predictive Analytics Model

Exercise: Flight Risk Model

Company Deliverable: Results of Maturity Assessment

Week 8 – Operational Analytics

  • Management Reporting
  • Public Big Data
  • Business Dashboards

Exercise: Tableau Public Mock Up

Company Deliverable: Business Dashboard Prototype

Week 9: Data Visualization & Presentation

  • Data Visualization
  • Enchantment
  • Data Storytelling
  • Exercise: D.R.A.P.S
  • Company Deliverable: A Business Data Story

Week 10 – Final Project/DSA Strategy Presentation

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My goal is to create and promote a hybrid approach that offers both supplemental education and hands on experience. We need to get past the days of having OJT do data encoding or simple research projects… they need skills that they can apply day one.

They need it, we need it, the country needs it.

Any ideas or suggestions? This is just the first draft.

Hoping to roll this out in the next month or so.

Analytics Education – Facilitating a mastery of the fundamentals of analytics is what DMAIPH does best. As a key parnter of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation’s Project DARE initative, DMAIPH champions the use of using data. All across the world, companies are scrambling to hire analytics talent to optimize the big data they have in their businesses. We can empower students and their instructors with the knowledge they need to prepare for careers in data science and analytics. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly so we can set a guest lecturer date, On-the-Job Training experience or other analytics education solution specifically tailored to your needs.

3 Key Tools Needed for HR Analytics: R, SPSS & Tableau

I get asked a lot about what are the best tools to use for HR Analytics. That is not really an easy question to answer as every company has needs a little different then every other company.

That said, the two most common in my experience with HR in the Philippines are R (including RStudio) and SPSS.

R is great for statistical analysis and visualization which is very suited to explore huge data sets.

It enables you to analyze and clean data sets with millions of rows of data. In addition, it lets you to visualize your data and analysis, like what you see below.

RStudio is an open source and enterprise-ready professional software package for R.

It basically does everything that R does, but has a friendlier user interface. The interface contains a code editor, the R console, an easily accessible workspace, and history and room for plots and files. You can take a look at an example of this below.

SPSS is one of the most commonly used HR analytics tools in social sciences. Thanks to its user-friendly interface you’re able to analyze data without having extensive statistical knowledge.

In addition, SPSS is often used within the field of social science. This means that a lot of HR professionals know how to use it, especially the ones with an interest in data.

Additionally, SPSS shares many similarities with Excel which makes it easier to work with.

Tableau is a business intelligence tool that is great at data visualization and business dashboards.

You can also learn to use Tableau to display data you process through SPSS to show results of predictive models.

So for companies looking take the dive into HR Analytics, these tools would give you a good base to inventory and analyze data using R, model it using SPSS and presenting it using Tableau

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Analytics in the Philippines – The Philippines is at the center of the action when it comes to solutions to the global need for analytics. Blessed with a solid foundation of young, educated and English speaking workforce, companies around the world are look for Filipino analytics talent to fill analytics positions. DMAIPH was set up to facilitate these solutions and bring the talent and the business together. And that is exactly why I wrote Putting Your Data to Work, the first analytics guidebook designed specifically for the Philippines. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly so we can help you take advantage of this unique global opportunity.

APEC Data Science & Analytics Key Competency #4: Domain Knowledge and Application

According to the APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) Advisory Group, Domain Knowledge and Application is one of the key competencies of a Data Science & Analytics professional working in the region.

By definition, a DSA professional can apply domain-related knowledge and insights to effectively contextualize data, achieved by practical experience (e.g. apprenticeships) and exposure to emerging innovations.

In my own experience, I knew Wells Fargo data like the back of my hand, but my domain knowledge would have easily allowed me to the same great things with other big banks. When I toyed with the idea of moving into the health services industry, it was obvious my skills would be useful but I had a lot ot learn about the domain knowledge of healthcare data.

Since, domain knowledge represents knowledge and insight that is unique to the organization or industry and that analysts need to consider when conducting any data project. Without this knowledge, analytics solutions may not entirely address the real business problem.

In my experience, domain knowledge about the data being analyzed can sometimes be acquired through exploration of the raw data.  Often, good analysts become subject experts just by playing with the data and asking questions to domain experts about the data.

Given the dearth of analytics talent in many areas, reality will dictate that a lot of data projects will have to be done without sufficient domain knowledge. However, most experts would agree the best results come when the ones using the data, know the data.

So, it behooves companies to invest more in educating and enabling internal resources then looking outside for DSA talent. My solution to this is to introduce apprenticeship programs where subject matter experts train current staff with high DSA affinity who are currently working in other roles.

As an example, there are likely thousands of current call center agents who have the aptitude to be analysts an data scientists, but never had the opportunity to of into DSA. Given they are already employees with proven track records of success, they would be much more likely to have the domain knowledge needed.

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Analytics Training – DMAIPH offers a wide range of analytics centric training solutions for professionals and students via public, in-house, on-site, and academic settings. We tailor each training event to meet the unique needs of the audience.

If you need empowerment and skills enhancement to optimize the use of analytics in your organization, we are here to help. Contact DMAIPH now at analytics@dmaiph.com or connect with me directly to set up a free consultation to learn which of our DMAIPH analytics training solutions is best for you.