Power User Networks: The Key to Self Service Analytics

Sep 05, 2018 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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Data analysts who sit in each business function (i.e., sales, marketing, finance) are critical to the success of a self-service analytics strategy. The problem is that most data analysts don’t receive the training and support they need to be proficient with self-service data and analytics tools....

Little Data Needs Love Too!

Sep 05, 2018 by DeWayne Washington in All Things B.I.

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There are still organizations and companies that don’t have big data: are they not poised for analytics too? 

Driving Business Advantage with GDPR: Best Practices for BI and Data Science

Aug 30, 2018 by /experts/ in Predictive Analytics Trends

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GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)- privacy law granting new data rights for consent, personal privacy, data ownership, and model explanation

Steve Dine: Are you Struggling with a Traditional Architecture? Modernize it.

Aug 20, 2018 by Wayne Eckerson and Henry H. Eckerson in Secrets of Data & Analytics Leaders

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In this episode, Wayne Eckerson and Steve Dine discuss modernizing data architectures. They cover the definition of a modern data architecture, telltale signs you need to modernize, as well as pitfalls to watch out for and best practices to use when modernizing.

Best Practices for Real Time Data Pipelines with Change Data Capture and Spark

Aug 08, 2018 by Kevin Petrie and & Jordan Martz in Decoding Data Software

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Compelling operational analysis is increasingly real-time rather than historical, which requires real-time pipelines that acquire, transform, and analyze high volumes of transactional data with minimal latency. Apache Spark can accelerate the transformation and analysis stages, and change data...