Getting Big Data Right: A Checklist to Evaluate Your Environment
Anyone who has been awake for the past few years cannot but help to have noticed that there is a…
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The Book Look: Growing Business Intelligence
Larry Burns wrote the book Agile Data Management, an extremely practical book about how to make agile work without sacrificing…
Data Architecture COMN Sense – Is the Data Warehouse Dead?
It was a pleasure to attend a data warehousing event in Austin, Texas in early December to take a few…
Bad Data’s Impact on Decision-Making
Having been around the block, we data professionals have seen many cases of data which could be construed as “imaginative.” …
Data Warehouse Design – Inmon versus Kimball
Introduction We are living in the age of a data revolution, and more corporations are realizing that to lead—or in…
Mitigate Information Related Risks with Metadata
Metadata is a much abused term that has entered mainstream vocabulary in recent years through the revelations about mass surveillance by…
Insight … So What?
There is a lot of hype around analytics today, with most of it centered on the word “insight.” It seems that…
Data Cleansing vs Data Maintenance: Which One Is Most Important?
There are always two aspects to data quality improvement. Data cleansing is the one-off process of tackling errors within the…
The Data-Centric Revolution: Seven Warning Signs of Appliosclerosis
Of all the dangers that befall those on the journey to data centrism, by far the greatest danger is Appliosclerosis.…
Agile Data Design – August 2014
What a successful BI project teaches us, ultimately, is humility. Larry Burns tells us that we did not know what…