TDWI Articles

Data Stories: Visualizations that Encourage Investigation

Do you want to present an answer or allow discovery? These visualizations about employee poaching, Trump’s business empire, and the movie industry invite exploration.

The Best Jobs Are in Tech, Especially in Analytics and Data Management

It's a good time to be a data scientist. In all, four data management-related jobs cracked the top 10 of a new job satisfaction survey from Glassdoor.com.

Data Digest: Data Science Career Paths, Healthcare Scheduling Algorithms, Big Data Versus Malaria

Read about 5 potential paths to becoming a data scientist, how data science is improving scheduling for cancer patients, and how big data is being used to fight malaria.

Why Data Science Must (And Will) Be Automated

Data science today is extremely labor-intensive. The automated or quasi-automated features widely used in self-service BI aren't commonplace in data science, but Gartner says that's about to change.

Data Scientist Skills for Success

With the increasing demand for data science professionals, what skills are necessary to succeed in our new digital world?

When the Relationships in Data Are More Important Than the Data Itself

Neo Technology's Emil Eifrem takes a closer look at the Panama Papers -- and how a powerful graph database made the mining of such huge data files possible.

When Businesses Go Around IT for Analytics

Business people have been going around IT organizations for about as long as they've been dealing with them. In a recent report, Gartner tackles the emerging problem of going around IT for analytics.

Data Wrangling Versus ETL: What’s the Difference?

Three things that distinguish data prep from the traditional extract, transform, and load process.

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