Can Tableau really change your life?
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…
Chasing rainbows
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…
In praise of *unactionable* insight
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…
Managing by Averages… of Averages
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…
Time for the Single Product View?
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 […]
Bad [data visualization] science?
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 […]
A cautionary tale of data governance
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 […]
Opinion-operated vs data-driven
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 […]
Skills for Big Data?
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 […]
From HBR: IT fumbling analytics
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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