Peloton Is Saving My Knees | +149% More Calories Burned

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Peloton Is Saving My Knees | +149% More Calories Burned

Despite having had surgery on both my knees, see how the Peloton cycle transformed Chuck Utterback’s workouts in 2020 driving a 149% increase in workout calories burned. This post explores personal analytics of the “quantified self” using years of data from iPhone fitness apps Apple Health, Peloton and Symple. Insights are provided using Tableau data visualization to evaluate performance as a former, dedicated runner transitions to indoor cycling.

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Accelerate ROI through Analytics in 2017

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Accelerate ROI through Analytics in 2017

This year, resolve to develop your organization’s collective vision for analytics and information management programs by using a business-value blueprint to drive high-ROI candidate initiatives to the top of the priority list.

Instead of wandering aimlessly through 2017 without a roadmap, mobilize a team to set your strategic plan for analytics and information management. Developing a strategy allows your organization to better anticipate and prepare for change, align key stakeholders, and set a benchmark for you to assess your performance.

Click here for details on how to approach an analytics road map.

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A Quantitative Health Framework

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A Quantitative Health Framework

"In the United States, more than 75% of healthcare costs are due to chronic conditions." Hearing that statistic, if you had the power to prevent diabetes, heart disease, or another chronic illness in yourself, would you make the changes required?

Take a moment to check out this post by Chuck Utterback on the benefits of Functional Medicine and an analytical framework linking personal health metrics to Functional Medicine concepts to produce personal, quantified health statements.

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There's Something About Mary's (Tableau Dashboard)

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There's Something About Mary's (Tableau Dashboard)

The Baby Name Popularity: A 100 Year Retrospective dashboard gives a 100-year trend in U.S. births for any name.  It also includes six interesting story-points for trending names Mary, Donald, Emma, Victoria, Noah and Britney.  

Take a few minutes to check out your own name.  You might be surprised by what you see...and read about some features of Tableau used in this interactive BI dashboard.

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Key Benefits of Deploying an Analytics Center of Excellence

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Key Benefits of Deploying an Analytics Center of Excellence

A cross-functional Analytics Center of Excellence (ACE), if designed and implemented well, can be a catalyst for finding insights, improving productivity and fostering collaboration across the enterprise.  The role of an Analytics Center of Excellence includes:

  • Formalizing Business Intelligence program sponsorship and strategy.
  • Investing in a dedicated team of resources to drive best practices, standards and coaching.
  • Establishing processes to enable the agile adoption and application of analytics.
  • Enabling the analytic community by deploying self-service BI and analytics technologies.

Is your Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC) or Analytics COE generating these benefits?

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