Two companies take a different approach to building the better-than-data warehouse data warehouse.
- By Steve Swoyer
- March 9, 2016
A collection of interesting facts about cloud computing (and the accuracy of spreadsheets), plus a reminder that correlation does not mean causation.
- By James E. Powell
- March 8, 2016
Almost two years on, it looks as if Spark SQL, the SQL interpreter for the red-hot Spark cluster computing framework, is shaping up to be a query-processing powerhouse.
- By Steve Swoyer
- March 8, 2016
Data storytelling is often too abstract to apply to business intelligence. However, there are practical techniques of enhancing BI with words, annotations, and narrations.
- By Jake Dolezal
- March 7, 2016
Getting useful insight from that pile of data you're collecting is worth it; here's how to do it right. Plus, a survey on the customer experience and the part data quality plays and 10 characteristics every modern data integration program must have.
- By Quint Turner
- March 4, 2016
The more you understand how algorithmic models work, the better the opportunities to engage the right set of data scientists and make them productive.
- By David Loshin
- March 4, 2016
Articles in today's digest look at creating visualizations like a data artist, how to use scatter plots effectively, and how to use create simple and effective graphs with JavaScript.
- By Quint Turner
- March 3, 2016
For decision makers to get the greatest benefit from data, BI needs to better align with how people learn and remember that not everyone benefits equally from data visualizations.
- By James Richardson
- March 2, 2016