{"id":8676,"date":"2017-06-01T14:18:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T18:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=8676"},"modified":"2017-06-01T14:20:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T18:20:15","slug":"analytics-101-assessing-project-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/analytics-101-assessing-project-value\/8676\/","title":{"rendered":"Analytics 101: Assessing Project Value"},"content":{"rendered":"The key question that organizations ALWAYS ask when undertaking an analytics initiative is &#8220;Can they guarantee value from the project?&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0They want to know whether the return on their investment will be positive. But they want this guarantee before any data, the technical infrastructure, or other relevant details about the analytics environment have been assessed. Though a prior guarantee is impossible, there are key factors that an organization can assess early to estimate project viability and value \u2013 to get at the expected cost and return of the proposed investment. When organizations hire an analytics consultant or attempt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/analytics-101-assessing-project-value\/8676\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The key question that organizations ALWAYS ask when undertaking an analytics initiative is &#8220;Can they guarantee value from the project?&#8221; \u00a0\u00a0They want to know whether the return on their investment will be positive. But they want this guarantee before any data, the technical infrastructure, or other relevant details about the analytics environment have been assessed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[930,928,929,91,62,8],"class_list":["post-8676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-industry-news","tag-analytics-consultant","tag-andrew-fast","tag-assessing-project-value","tag-data-scientists","tag-elder-research","tag-predictive-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8676"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8690,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676\/revisions\/8690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}