Business Driven vs Data-Driven Data Model Design

Jan 24, 2015 by Steve Dine in Enterprise Data Warehousing

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Many people look to agile development methodologies as a structural way to involve the business in the design and development of business intelligence (BI) solutions. However, many times the design practices employed within the iterations aren’t actually business driven at all. We see this most...

Python and SAS: Moving Data From SAS to Tableau

Jan 24, 2015 by Michael Gonzales, Ph.D in Data Science

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Advanced analytics is critical to the modern organization. However, with products like SAS, the data and information generated is often stored in proprietary data sets. This means that visibility to that data and related information is essentially locked up to everyone except the analysts...

Python and SPSS: Extending the Analytic Landscape

Jan 24, 2015 by Michael Gonzales, Ph.D in Data Science

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In a recent client engagement, our team was asked to establish a method to identify and report on deviations of normal file activity. This blog will examine the use of Python as a middleware application that deconstructs SPSS Statistics output into data components that are loaded into an MS SQL...

Information Architecture and the Human Dimension, Part 1

Jan 22, 2015 by Barry Devlin in Information Architecture

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Information and data—two words we use almost interchangeably and without agreed definition in the IT industry. Add architecture, management or governance to either or both of them and the resulting cognitive dissonance can reach fever pitch. Speak to anyone in the business about some or all of...

No more shortcuts: Sound data quality strategy a must for BI success

Jan 22, 2015 by Lyndsay Wise in Midmarket Analytics

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In the past, companies might have gotten away with not building data quality efforts into business intelligence programs. That's less likely now.As business intelligence and analytics adoption expands within organizations, there's a natural push from business users to add more types of data from...