How much data is enough? (0)
1/19/18 •
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 must be better” camp that is starting to occasionally make me think. The […]
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Finding balance in your ETL strategy (0)
3/22/17 •
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 strategy (or lack thereof). In general, companies approach solving ETL needs in three different ways. ETL empires These are companies that have a […]
The top 3 reasons to automate your data preparation (0)
6/29/16 •
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 step, work your way through it- copy paste, cut and move, formula after formula in your spreadsheet […]
Avoid the Spaghetti (0)
7/26/15 •
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 quality issue? No problem, you add filters, views, and report edits that hide the dirt. Its fast, its easy. You […]
Set up a test then check the data then decide (0)
2/23/15 •
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 pleased to see that the City of Toronto, Canada (our home town) is doing some driving with data, and it […]
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