Data Engineering Coming of Age

Apr 01, 2018 by Dave Wells in Data Management

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Data engineering is one of the hottest and most difficult jobs to fill in the field of analytics. Breadth and depth of required skills limits the number of people qualified to work as data engineers. If you’re seeking to hire data engineers, consider the 24 skill areas identified here as guidance...

Data Strategy Pathways Part IV: Only One Road Gets You Home

Mar 30, 2018 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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The path to data nirvana can be tortuous. Once executives get zealous about data analytics, they want to quickly move up the maturity curve. But they often get sidetracked by their own urgency and biases. This article reviews four paths that organizations take in their data analytics journey....

NLG, A Final Step For BI?

Mar 30, 2018 by Henry H. Eckerson in Industry News and Analysis

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Business intelligence (BI) tools have faced low adoption rates since their inception. And even when users use the tools, there is no guarantee they will glean key insights and interpret graphs, charts, and dashboards accurately. Natural language generation solutions integrated with BI tools...

The Truth About Data Lakes In Plain English

Mar 27, 2018 by DeWayne Washington in All Things B.I.

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Data lakes have been all the rave lately. The BI Pharaoh breaks down what they are, where they come from, and if they are a necessity in your environment, in plain English.

May Data Warehouses Live In Peace: A Conversation Between Analysts

Mar 23, 2018 by /experts/ in Information Design

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In a webinar hosted by The Bloor Group and Eckerson Group, data titans Stephen Smith and Dewayne Washington clashed over whether the sickly data warehouse should be left for dead or revived. Eric Kavanagh, CEO of The Bloor Group, synthesized their arguments, but after the webinar, the fight...