Sisense

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The difference between reporting and business intelligence goes beyond charts for the first or data correlations for the second. Keep the following descriptions in mind. Reports often use standard or well-known formats to help people do their jobs better or more easily on a daily (or weekly, monthly, etc.)

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Darkhorse

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Analytics and now Data Science are trapped in the middle. A recent HBR article put it at 100% for data science projects. I suggest that there are five distinct job descriptions: SUBSCRIBE TO OUR BLOG. Data Steward – this skillset is alive and well in most organizations. That’s abysmal. He adds scale.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2016

By PATRICK RILEY For a number of years, I led the data science team for Google Search logs. Some people seemed to be naturally good at doing this kind of high quality data analysis. These engineers and analysts were often described as “careful” and “methodical”. I'd like to share the contents of that document in this blog post.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Here you'll find all my blog posts categorized into a structure that will hopefully make it easy for you to discover new content, find answers to your questions, or simply wallow in some excellent analytics narratives. Be data driven?" Blogging Experience Articles. + Six Rules For Creating A Data Driven Boss!

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Octopai

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

That means you should leave that old legacy system in the dust and migrate to a brand-spanking-new cloud-based data system as soon as possible, right? There’s no denying the immense benefits that cloud computing can bring to data management: easier scalability, reduced cost of IT operations, improved performance… the list goes on.

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Jen Stirrup

JUNE 20, 2020

In this post, I want to analyse the current PASS situation, explain some broader context, and give people a more data-driven view. I hope that this leads to a calmer discussion by providing additional information and data. I want to help by providing data and insights on the recent PASS row online.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 6, 2016

Analysts, honestly, make the world go round when it comes to any successful business – yes, data is that important. I've written about the biggest mistake web analysts make. Today's post is an adjacent mistake: The cardinal sin of spending too much time with data and in reports! BUT I Want Data-First!

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O'Reilly on Data

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

AI users say that AI programming (66%) and data analysis (59%) are the most needed skills. Given the cost of equipping a data center with high-end GPUs, they probably won’t attempt to build their own infrastructure. Few nonusers (2%) report that lack of data or data quality is an issue, and only 1.3%

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Alation

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Few actors in the modern data stack have inspired the enthusiasm and fervent support as dbt. This data transformation tool enables data analysts and engineers to transform, test and document data in the cloud data warehouse. Bindu Chandramohan, Lead, Data Analytics, Alation : Thanks, Jason!

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DataKitchen

APRIL 13, 2021

Read the complete blog below for a more detailed description of the vendors and their capabilities. This is not surprising given that DataOps enables enterprise data teams to generate significant business value from their data. Testing and Data Observability. Download the 2021 DataOps Vendor Landscape here.

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Andrew White

JANUARY 9, 2022

On Thursday January 6th I hosted Gartner’s 2022 Leadership Vision for Data and Analytics webinar. – In the webinar and Leadership Vision deck for Data and Analytics we called out AI engineering as a big trend. I would take a look at our Top Trends for Data and Analytics 2021 for additional AI, ML and related trends.

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Alation

MARCH 21, 2023

Today, modern travel and tourism thrive on data. For example, airlines have historically applied analytics to revenue management, while successful hospitality leaders make data-driven decisions around property allocation and workforce management. What is big data in the travel and tourism industry?

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Analysts: Put up or shut up time! This blog is centered around creating incredible digital experiences powered by qualitative and quantitative data insights. Every post is about unleashing the power of digital analytics (the potent combination of data, systems, software and people). Isn't it amazing?

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Like this blog, the newsletter is geared towards being instantly actionable (rather than just theory-smart, which is pretty cool too). Some of you know that I created the phrases Reporting Squirrels and Analysis Ninjas to emphasize the difference between those that puke data and those that puke insights with actions attached to them.

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Sisense

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

By capturing and analyzing more complex data about products, A/B testing can identify the effect small changes and new features have on engagement. Measuring product success requires asking highly contextual questions and rigorously applying data to find answers. Measuring engagement with a business product is difficult.

Analytics 72

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Occam's Razor

MAY 20, 2013

Digital is an obsession for almost everyone who reads this blog. Part of the reason is that the data you to which you have access narrows your worldview – "Hey, all I have is Google Analytics, so all I'll look at is Google Analytics data! That data is not in Google Analytics. Again, easey peasey.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

The single biggest mistake web analysts make is working without purpose. We send out a lot of data. Almost always we dive into the ocean of data first. No impact from the data. Unfortunately a very tiny fraction of companies, or Analysts, want to put in this lifesaving effort up front. We work very hard.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

This is part of our series of blog posts on recent enhancements to Impala. Apache Impala is synonymous with high-performance processing of extremely large datasets, but what if our data isn’t huge? It turns out that Apache Impala scales down with data just as well as it scales up. The entire collection is available here.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Javascript tag driven click data processed in the cloud provided through a web based front end that allows you to segment and create meaningful views of the data unique to you. In this blog post let me share with you some ground truths from my own humble experience. Yet, yet, yet, yet… there is so much we can do.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 12, 2018

After having rebuilt their data warehouse, I decided to take a little bit more of a pointed role, and I joined Oracle as a database performance engineer. I spent eight years in the real-world performance group where I specialized in high visibility and high impact data warehousing competes and benchmarks. Greg Rahn: Sure.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

First… it is important to realize that big data's big imperative is driving big action. 7: 25% of all analytical effort is dedicated to data visualization/enhancing data's communicative power. #6: Reporting Squirrels spend 75% or more of their time in data production activities.

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Depict Data Studio

MAY 8, 2023

All of these classes fall under the broad data communications umbrella. One class focuses on data analysis (cleaning and tabulating our raw datasets to get them ready for graphs). Class 1: Simple Spreadsheets: How to Analyze Data from Start to Finish in Excel Need to make sense of spreadsheets? Not sure where to start?

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 15, 2023

In this post, we explain how you can enable business users to ask and answer questions about data using their everyday business language by using the Amazon QuickSight natural language query function, Amazon QuickSight Q. Q uses the same QuickSight datasets you use for your dashboards and reports so your data is governed and secured.

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datapine

APRIL 16, 2019

The term ‘big data’ alone has become something of a buzzword in recent times – and for good reason. By implementing the right reporting tools and understanding how to analyze as well as to measure your data accurately, you will be able to make the kind of data driven decisions that will drive your business forward.

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