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A Great Analyst's Best Friends: Skepticism & Wisdom!

Occam's Razor

Then, I asked for the source of data. A 2014 AOL report and an online survey with n=600. This post is from 2006: Data Quality Sucks, Let's Just Get Over It You'll learn the six step process you can use to overcome the paralysis. It was horse-manure. You should sign-up!

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Great Storytelling With Data: Visualize Simply And Focus Obsessively

Occam's Razor

When you are presenting, to an audience of 3 or 3,000, your goal should be to get the data out of the way as fast as you can, so that you can move to the so what conversation. First, someone worked really hard on this and created a really nice model for a smarter decision to be made for 2014.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 6

Domino Data Lab

Curiosity as an antidote for a typical enterprise anti-pattern: in the absence of narrative, people make up stories (read: myths) from whatever partial data is at hand that serves the immediate interests(see chapter 2 in Understanding Context by Andrew Hinton (2014). Lack of data, or data quality issues (silos).

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6 Case Studies on The Benefits of Business Intelligence And Analytics

datapine

As Dan Jeavons Data Science Manager at Shell stated: “what we try to do is to think about minimal viable products that are going to have a significant business impact immediately and use that to inform the KPIs that really matter to the business”. A great way to illustrate the operational benefits of business intelligence.