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Exact isn’t everything- Surf your data!
Sometimes an analyst needs to take off the accountants hat, forget the urge to chase down every last penny, and instead put on their surfing gear, grab the data surf board (i.e. their set of prefered...
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Small data in the age of Big Data
Just a quick thought on the subject of small data. Don't hear much about that in the press these days- everything is BIG BIG BIG. But small- (and remember, small is still hundreds of thousands or...
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Putting data analysis into the hands of the business user
Having too many people involved can slow down the entire analytics process- by using tools that are designed to be accessible by business users, huge gains can be made. However a challenge faced by all...
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Set up a test then check the data then decide
How often do you argue to someone making a gut call the importance of being "Data driven"? In the business intelligence business, we've been talking about this for more than 20 years. I was very...
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Avoid the Spaghetti
Has this ever happened to you? You have built some fantastic analytics- you are the Business Intelligence hero, the fixer of data, the creator of reports. They ask you for something, you fix it. Data...
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The top 3 reasons to automate your data preparation
Almost everyone has "that data crunching" that they do once a month, or once a quarter or (these are often the really brutal ones) once a year. You go get the raw data, then you painfully, step by...
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Finding balance in your ETL strategy
Organizations large and small can experience ETL (Extract Transform Load) bottlenecks in one way or another. The task is complex and significant damage to your business can occur due to inadequate ETL...
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Automating data update for Tableau Server using Tabcmd and Datamartist
Tableau is a wonderful, powerful visualization tool. If you have the data, it will generate insightful, powerful dashboards and reports. But actually getting the data is often the tricky bit. And...
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Data quality monitoring and reporting
In the vast majority of cases, useful data sets are not static, but are being updated, added to and purged constantly. Data quality monitoring aims to provide data quality information that is also...
View ArticleHow much data is enough?
While I don't feel an urge to argue the "should we use data or use our gut to make decisions" question nearly as much as I used to, I am noticing that there is the "data is good, data is great, more...
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