Edition 3: The Data Roundup Newsletter

It's been 6 weeks since our last newsletter went out. A lot has happened since then!

Firstly - the name of the newsletter has changed to The Data Roundup and has found a home on Dalebrook Media's new website .

Secondly - we ran our first full in-person events, the Data Leaders Exchange . Over two days in early March, in Joburg and Cape Town, we hosted 150+ top data analytics leaders for in-depth conversations into the key challenges and opportunities facing the profession.

And third - we worked with Microsoft to deliver two virtual roundtables for the data analytics community where the topic of conversation was "Data Governance in the Age of Digital Transformation." It was great to be involved in these and to participate in the active knowledge sharing amongst peers.

And, we filmed a video series with Dean Erasmus, Ayanda Ngcebetsha, Vukosi Sambo, Jacky Mampana and Ray Mahlangu centred around "What does it mean to be a data analytics leader in 2022?" The interviews will be dropped in the coming weeks and will be featured in the next newsletter.

Enjoy this round of articles! If you'd like contribute please send me an email on [email protected]

Key Learning Points for High Frequency Analytics by Matthew Bernath

Data analytics and AI depends on historical data to make predictions of the future. During COVID-19, the change in behaviour and increased frequency of global events was enough to overwhelm most models, even sophisticated AI...read more

The 4 Personality Traits the Determine a Leader's Ability to do More Meaningful Work by Veruscha Hunter

Some leaders can kill meaning at work. Enabling people to deeply engage in their jobs and to pursue meaningful work is a foundational and vitally important role and responsibility of all leaders. According to McKinsey, some leaders undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives of their employees in avoidable ways...read more

Data Stewardship: Setting up a Winning Team by Dr Sizwe Gwala

It goes without saying that business stability, consistency, and predictability as we once knew it, has vanished, with a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous (VUCA) status quo taking centre stage. This has seen most businesses experiencing an exponential growth in the volume, variety, and velocity of business-critical data amassed, processed, and disseminated daily...read more

Where Will Our Insights Come From by MH van Staden

Insights do not come from data. Often business stakeholders will cast their eyes to the data team looking to learn something new and useful. Especially as a young data specialist, or somebody relatively new to the environment, this can be quite a daunting expectation to face...read more

Three Data Analytics Predictions for 2022 by Jacques du Preez

The ability to make fast accurate decisions over every aspect of the business was arguably one of the most powerful business capabilities of 2021.?Companies that can eliminate uncertainty by drawing real-time insights over every aspect of its operations and using the insights to make quick, accurate decisions are far better equipped to steer the business through stormy waters...read more

Data Topics for Marketers by Jose Almeida

Data is at the core of marketing strategies in every organization. It’s the basis for insights to better understand target audiences and what makes marketing campaigns successful.?That is, if when saying data, we’re talking about quality data. Data that is complete, consistent, accurate, timely and available...read more

Episode 1: 66 Questions - Data Leaders Unplugged with John Thompson by Samir Sharma (Podcast)

Samir speaks to John Thompson to find out more about the person behind the leader. About John: John is an international technology executive with over 30 years of experience in the business intelligence and advanced analytics fields. Currently, John is responsible for the global Advanced Analytics & Artificial Intelligence team and efforts at CSL...listen

Episode 2: The Data Protection Show with Janine West (Video)

In this episode of The Data Protection Show Janine is joined by Marco Polo Advisory Co-CEO, Siobhain O'Mahony. Janine and Siobhain tackle the complex area of 3rd party data risk and provide great tips on how companies can do proper due diligence on their suppliers and partners. Under data protection in general, Siobhain raises the often forget point of protecting physical data assets - print outs, notebooks etc...watch

On 31 March Snowflake will be introducing the South African market to the Data Cloud at a cocktail function in association with BITanium.

Join them to learn how the Data Cloud can power your data strategies and help you deliver innovative and industry-leading products and services. The Data Cloud is a global network where thousands of organisations mobilise data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance.

Registration is free through this link: https://snowflake-data-cloud.gr8.com/

The event takes place from 17:00 to 19:00 at Summer Place in Hyde Park.

The Security Leaders Exchange is designed to be a highly interactive and immersive experience for leaders in the information security community.?

No other event is so deliberately and carefully orchestrated to drive meaningful conversations amongst peers.

The event features 15 top-rated speakers who believe in the value of sharing knowledge with their peers to transform information security across all organisations. Our speakers play an active part in engaging the audience to create a sense of openness and community.

The event takes place on 7 April at the Radisson Blu Sandton.

"Data Governance is an enterprise competency. This is an important shift for organisations to make: from Data Governance as an IT-led initiative to a Business-led, IT-enabled initiative"

Maritza Curry, Head: Data, RCS Group