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Can Tableau really change your life?

October 7, 2016by Guy Cuthbert Leave a comment

Originally posted on That data viz guy:
Can Tableau really change your life? Well, you hear a lot on Twitter and blogs about how Tableau has helped people to really…

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Visual Analytics

Chasing rainbows

October 20, 2015by Guy Cuthbert Leave a comment

Originally posted on The Data Animators:
It cropped up again last week; the dreaded statement from a BI professional We must have a single version of the truth… Anyone working in…

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In praise of *unactionable* insight

September 28, 2015by Guy Cuthbert Leave a comment

Originally posted on The Data Animators:
One of the most common requests from my clients is for Actionable Insight; a desire to receive simple, understandable output from analytical activity which provides a clear indication…

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Managing by Averages… of Averages

September 15, 2015by Guy Cuthbert Leave a comment

Originally posted on The Data Animators:
Much of my visual analysis is performed to help large companies – usually retailers and their suppliers – to better understand a perplexing problem or opportunity in…

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Time for the Single Product View?

April 7, 2014by Guy Cuthbert Leave a comment

Let’s start with the customer… The concept of the Single Customer View (also known as “SCV”, and sometimes referred to as “Single View of Customer”) has been with us for […]

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Consumer Goods & Retail, Data Management, Data-driven Business

Bad [data visualization] science?

November 26, 2013by Guy Cuthbert Leave a comment

I’m an avid reader of Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science blog, and equally enthusiastic for Stephen Few’s Perceptual Edge, so it’s interesting when they pick up on the same theme from […]

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Science, Visual Analytics

A cautionary tale of data governance

November 3, 2013by Guy Cuthbert Leave a comment

Data governance is for geeks? Think that master data management is boring and never gets the attention of your senior management? Is data governance a tedious “IT thing” that your […]

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Data Management, Data-driven Business

Opinion-operated vs data-driven

May 11, 2013by Guy Cuthbert 6 Comments

Well, I think that… Thinking is good; few of us think often enough. Too many of us follow learnt behaviours without questioning whether they are effective or appropriate to the […]

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Data-driven Business

Skills for Big Data?

March 9, 2013by Guy Cuthbert 1 Comment

David Patton posed a question on the Google+ group Data Data Data yesterday, asking: For software developers wishing to work in Big Data, what do you think are the most […]

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Visual Analytics

From HBR: IT fumbling analytics

March 8, 2013by Guy Cuthbert Leave a comment

Harvard Business Review certainly doesn’t need endorsement from me; its impact is well-known worldwide. So it’s the spirit of sharing with fellow Data Animators that I’m about to rave about […]

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Data-driven Business, Visual Analytics

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