Cloudera

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

This guest blog was written by Shanice Omare, Research Manager, Vanson Bourne. Some organizations have taken this as an opportunity for positive change by moving workloads to the cloud and utilizing enterprise data strategies that are key to their business resiliency. Their current uses of data and analytics.

Enterprise 74

Enterprise Reporting Data Strategy Strategy 74

datapine

MAY 14, 2019

“Big data is at the foundation of all the megatrends that are happening.” – Chris Lynch, big data expert. We live in a world saturated with data. Zettabytes of data are floating around in our digital universe, just waiting to be analyzed and explored, according to AnalyticsWeek. Wondering which data science book to read?

Data Science 350

Data Science Machine Learning Data-driven Big Data 350

Alation

APRIL 18, 2023

For any data user in an enterprise today, data profiling is a key tool for resolving data quality issues and building new data solutions. In this blog, we’ll cover the definition of data profiling, top use cases, and share important techniques and best practices for data profiling today.

IT 52

IT Metadata Data Quality Data Governance 52

Alation

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What is data governance and how do you measure success? Data governance is a system for answering core questions about data. It begins with establishing key parameters: What is data, who can use it, how can they use it, and why? But what comes after these parameters are set?

Data Governance 96

Data Governance Strategy Data Quality Metrics 96

Andrew White

OCTOBER 22, 2021

If you follow my blog for any period of time you will know that for most years I have attended our annual Gartner IT Symposium I do a day-in-the-life blog of an analyst. This often starts with a graphic of my mind waves (courtesy of Muse) and then you get an hour by hour run down of what I do every day. Consumer/Goods 3.

IT 52

IT Data Lake Strategy Data Science 52

Alation

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Data product managers are in high demand these days. This makes it more important for aspiring data product managers to stay ahead of the competition. So what sets data product managers apart from the pack? What skills do they possess that make them successful? Data can be complex and ever-changing.

Management 52

Management Data-driven Visualization Strategy 52

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?" Qualitative Analysis: "What's Voice of Customer? Be data driven?"

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KPI Metrics Measurement ROI 124

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 31, 2017

Ten years, and the 944,357 words, are proof that I love purposeful data, collecting it, pouring smart strategies into analyzing it, and using the insights identified to transform organizations. Don't fragment data, don't forget higher order bits. Don't run away, make the tough choices. simplification and 2.

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Visualization IT Strategy Key Performance Indicator 148

Sisense

JULY 10, 2019

When we sat down to plan this execution strategy, we realized there were several different ways we could approach it. Here’s how we re-architected Sisense with the right technologies and frameworks for the task at hand without simply porting the code over. As of 2017, Linux was running 90% of the public cloud workload.

IT 69

IT Testing Technology Sales 69

Occam's Razor

MAY 5, 2016

I am not, and this post is all about getting the data to show you that I am indeed not being sarcastic. First, plant me firmly in the column of people who believe that using an ad blocker is a personal choice, each person makes the moral decision they are most comfortable with. You don't use an ad blocker, right? Of course not!

Metrics 103

Metrics Reporting Analytics Advertising 103

datapine

APRIL 15, 2020

When it comes to implementing and managing a successful BI strategy we have always proclaimed: start small, use the right BI tools , and involve your team. When encouraging these BI best practices what we are really doing is advocating for agile business intelligence and analytics. What Is Agile Analytics And BI?

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Business Intelligence Analytics Testing Dashboards 276

DataKitchen

APRIL 18, 2024

Introducing DataKitchen’s Open Source Data Observability Software Today, we announce that we have open-sourced two complete, feature-rich products that solve the data observability problem: DataOps Observervability and DataOps TestGen. What is DataOps Observability? That’s what DataOps Observability promises.

Testing 120

Testing Data Quality Enterprise Data Analytics 120

datapine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

1) What Are Product Metrics? 4) Product Metrics Framework. In an increasingly data-driven business world, the product management field isn’t exempt from this need. In an increasingly data-driven business world, the product management field isn’t exempt from this need. What Are Product Metrics? Table of Contents.

Metrics 141

Metrics KPI Measurement Dashboards 141

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 17, 2017

by ERIC TASSONE, FARZAN ROHANI We were part of a team of data scientists in Search Infrastructure at Google that took on the task of developing robust and automatic large-scale time series forecasting for our organization. Adjustments to clean the data: missing values, anomalies, level changes, and transformations.

Forecasting 83

Forecasting Modeling Statistics Uncertainty 83

Laminar Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Data breaches increased by 156% between Q1 and Q2 alone. The numbers speak for themselves: today’s approach to data security isn’t working. Today’s data security strategies need new solutions, but unfortunately, many existing tools can only manage one piece of that much bigger and more complex puzzle.

Strategy 88

Strategy Risk Testing Recreation/Entertainment 88

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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Analytics Measurement Modeling Data-driven 64

IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The modern pace of data creation is staggering. The average organization produces data constantly—perhaps even continuously—and soon it’s investing in servers to provide ample storage for that information. But the creation of new data never slows for long. What is a data center?

Strategy 101

Strategy Cost-Benefit Data Processing Software 101

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Since you're reading a blog on advanced analytics, I'm going to assume that you have been exposed to the magical and amazing awesomeness of experimentation and testing. There are really easy to use free tools , or tools that are extremely affordable and also good. What does a robust experimentation program contain?

Experimentation 101

Experimentation Testing Optimization Marketing 101

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 3, 2012

But a robust digital marketing strategy for medium- or large-sized businesses encompasses so much more. What is a good way to self-identify gaps in strategy, to discover the mistakes that might be making your strategy sub-optimal? " framework with you. But nothing magical had come to me.

Marketing 147

Marketing Advertising Strategy Optimization 147

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 11, 2015

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you are quite familiar with this sentiment. Custom reports allow you to deeply focus (by eliminating the rif-raf metrics and dimensions, they save time and show just what you want). Many custom reports are wrong because we mess up the fundamental data model in analytics. Seven more!

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Reporting Analytics Metrics Key Performance Indicator 158

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Culture is a stronger determinant of success with data than anything else. Including data. People + Process + Structure] > [Data + Technology]. You want to win big with data, with marketing, with transformative digital yada yada and blah blah, evolve. Maybe this metaphor will help make this real.

Metrics 146

Metrics Marketing Optimization Modeling 146

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Amazon DataZone enables customers to discover, access, share, and govern data at scale across organizational boundaries, reducing the undifferentiated heavy lifting of making data and analytics tools accessible to everyone in the organization. Govern data access across organizational boundaries.

Metadata 97

Metadata Data Lake Publishing Data Governance 97

erwin

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Better decision-making has now topped compliance as the primary driver of data governance. However, organizations still encounter a number of bottlenecks that may hold them back from fully realizing the value of their data in producing timely and relevant business insights. Data Governance Bottlenecks. Sources, like IoT.

Data Governance 89

Data Governance Metadata Data Quality Risk Management 89

Alation

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Healthcare is changing, and it all comes down to data. Data & analytics represents a major opportunity to tackle these challenges. Indeed, many healthcare organizations today are embracing digital transformation and using data to enhance operations. In other words, they use data to heal more people and save more lives.

Data Governance 52

Data Governance Measurement Modeling Metrics 52

Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

There is, almost literally, an unlimited number of things you could focus on to create a high impact data-influenced organization. How do you ensure that your can zig-zag with business strategy? What guarantees that agility and innovation are present in your analytics practice? Not as important as you might think.

Analytics 141

Analytics Data-driven Strategy Consulting 141

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We were brain storming about the next cluster of coolness for Analytics, the conversation quickly went to what Analysts need to look at on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. And, then I started to redefine what daily, weekly and monthly even means. A vast majority of us out there are data rich, information poor. : (.

Analytics 80

Analytics Metrics Key Performance Indicator Slice and Dice 80

Occam's Razor

APRIL 2, 2012

A wise person said: "To guarantee success, spend 95% of your time defining the problem and 5% of the time solving it." I'm convinced that the resulting problems (confusion, FUD, angst, daily prayers, and wasted budget) are due to the lack of a clear framework that can help clearly define the problem.

Modeling 152

Modeling Advertising Marketing Measurement 152

datapine

JULY 24, 2019

Data has never been more readily accessible. Informed decision-making ultimately leads to greater access, opportunities, and technological advancement. Very often, the most important factor in determining success comes down to who engages in factual and informed decision-making and who follows hunches and suppositions.

Dashboards 148

Dashboards Business Intelligence Visualization KPI 148

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

When it comes to data analysis, you are usually more likely to see me share guidance on advanced segmentation or custom reports or advanced social metrics or controlled experiments or economic value or competitive intelligence or web analytics maturity or one of an infinite number of difficult, if hugely rewarding, things. Ravaging data.

Analytics 145

Analytics Dashboards Metrics Key Performance Indicator 145

Occam's Razor

MAY 27, 2015

In a recent set of keynotes and consulting engagements in the US, UK and Canada, I've had an overwhelming feeling that in very fundamental ways some companies make imprecise choices when it comes to their digital strategy. You'll understand what's wrong in terms of the strategic choice being made and 2.

Marketing Analytics 153

Marketing Analytics Marketing Analytics Advertising 153

Occam's Razor

APRIL 19, 2010

"What is the difference between a metric and a key performance indicator (KPI)?" " "What is a dimension in analytics?" " "What is segmentation?" The post will end with a Web Analytics Measurement Framework. " Or: "What are the three most important priorities for your site?"

Metrics 138

Metrics Key Performance Indicator KPI Business Objectives 138

Occam's Razor

JUNE 15, 2010

Most of the time spent by Marketers & Analysts tends to be spend looking for "known knowns" Things we know and expect to see in the data, we look to see if they are there. " " To: " Thank goodness I had an alert in my inbox about that big drop yesterday, I'm off to fix landing pages for that segment.

Analytics 105

Analytics Metrics Measurement Marketing 105

Occam's Razor

JUNE 11, 2014

We have more data than God wants anyone to have. But with all this data, talent, money and leadership support, we are not knocking the ball out of the park. But with all this data, talent, money and leadership support, we are not knocking the ball out of the park. If you know what you want, you can buy it.

Marketing 150

Marketing Strategy Sales IT 150

Sisense

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Several methods and resources help with HOW to test APIs — manual testing, automated testing, test environments, tools, libraries, and frameworks. Several methods and resources help with HOW to test APIs — manual testing, automated testing, test environments, tools, libraries, and frameworks. Image source: Martin Fowler.

Testing 89

Testing Strategy Modeling ROI 89

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

The questions reveal a bunch of things we used to worry about, and continue to, like data quality and creating data driven cultures. What tools / methodologies do you use to answer pan-session sorts of business questions? What can analysts do, if anything, to overcome the multi-device challenge. EU Cookies!)

Modeling 124

Modeling Metrics Data Quality Data-driven 124

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 tie to what's important. No impact from the data. Just doing the four things, in five steps above, will deliver what we lack… purpose.

IT 138

IT Measurement Marketing Metrics 138

datapine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

1) What Is A Business Intelligence Strategy? 2) BI Strategy Benefits. 3) Steps To Build Your BI Roadmap. 4) How To Create A Business Intelligence Strategy. Over the past 5 years, big data and BI became more than just data science buzzwords. What Is A Business Intelligence Strategy?

Business Intelligence 218

Business Intelligence Strategy Cost-Benefit Key Performance Indicator 218