Beyond the Data Platform: Lessons learnt from ZEN Energy with Chris Smyth

Beyond the Data Platform: Lessons learnt from ZEN Energy with Chris Smyth

Last week, a small group of energy industry, data-focused leaders gathered in Melbourne to listen to Chris Smyth, ZEN Energy’s Inaugural CIO and recently announced EGM of Customer Operations, share his and ZEN’s journey to build a scalable data platform from scratch. It was a fascinating and engaging discussion, don’t worry – we took notes […]

Scaling Systems for Advanced Analytics with Justin Kenny, Energy Queensland

Notes from our August Brisbane industry breakfast with small group of energy and water industry, data-focused leaders who gathered to listen to Justin Kenny, Energy Queensland’s Advanced Analytics Platform Manager, share his and EQ’s journey to build a scalable data platform that is about to surpass 1.2 million NMIs. Queensland is one of the leading […]

Embedding Project Learnings: Energy Queensland

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Our team recently worked with large Queensland energy provider, Energy Queensland to take a data project from Proof of Value Phase to Delivery Phase. Here’s the perspective of the team on how to optimise and smooth the transition from Proof of Value to Delivery. Proof of Value Discovery Thanks to the successful Proof of Value […]

Why bother with the Proof of Value Phase?

For cutting-edge projects, the Proof of Value phase of a project is incredibly important and an almost perfect predictor of a project’s success. Dave Hamilton, our Senior Data Engineer, recently conducted a Proof of Value (PoV) with large Queensland energy provider, Energy Queensland. From this and other Proof of Value projects, he can share several […]

How to boost confidence in your Data Science investments

How to boost confidence in your Data Science investments

In ‘How successful are your Data Science projects?‘ we acknowledged that the growing discipline of Data Science is benefiting from the recognition and associated investment being made by businesses. However, the failure rate of Data Science projects is alarmingly high, and we have to be careful this discipline is not overlooked as another hype cycle. We […]

How complete are existing Data Science methodologies?

How to boost confidence in your Data Science investments

In ‘How successful are your Data Science projects?’ we asked the question of all stakeholders, be they the sponsors who are investing, the leaders who have to justify the investment or the passionate data scientists, whether they were happy with the results of their effort in Data Science.  For those wanting to improve this answer, we recommended […]

How successful are your Data Science projects?

How to boost confidence in your Data Science investments

Data Science is a rapidly growing discipline as more and more businesses recognise and invest in the role that it plays in digital opportunities and seek to take advantage of the associated benefits. On the one hand the size of this investment is encouraging – on the other hand the failure rate for Data Science […]