You’ve done the hard work. You’ve now gotten to the point of data visualization, but can you trust your results?We’ll look at some tips and strategies on how to avoid fallacies or pitfalls in data analysis.Anyone analyzing data will come…
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Less GIGO, more KNOW: Do’s and Don’t’s in Data Collection and Distribution
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Anybody who hangs out in IT or data science circles will invariably become familiar with the acronym GIGO. GIGO stands for “garbage in, garbage out” (or “good in, good out,” depending on who you ask). But semantics aside, it’s a…
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Big Data Management: 5 Key Points to Remember
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The idea is pretty simple: the more you have of something, the more challenging it is to manage. This absolutely holds true when it comes to data. Today, we’re seeing the “datafication” of the modern business and almost all organizations,…
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9 Things Your Boss Wants to Know About Data Warehousing
Best Practices Data WarehousingAs an analyst who deals with data from many data sources daily, you might find yourself as the go-to source for information about business intelligence in your office. While it’s cute when your grandma asks about what it is you…
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Don’t Just Create Data – Learn How to Use It!
Best PracticesThere are some big things happening around big data. I’ve had the chance to work with various types of cloud, data center, and virtualization systems through the years. One of the biggest trends throughout these deployments has been the growth…
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Cloud Security Best Practices
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As your organization moves its data into the cloud, you face the challenge of balancing productivity and efficiency gains with tremendous compliance and security concerns. While securing your cloud is not the same as securing your physical infrastructure, it doesrequire…
How To Get People to Share Data
Being Data-Driven Best PracticesIf you ask a group of big data analysts what are some of the top professional challenges they face, you can easily imagine which challenges are consistently shortlisted. One is the amount of time and effort needed to get data…
Top Cloud Data Security Risks, Threats, and Concerns
Best PracticesThere are many risks involved with data security. Storing data in the cloud might seem like a safe bet, and for most users it is. But risks will always exist. Below we have identified some serious security threats in cloud…
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Data Management Best Practices for Cloud Computing
Best PracticesAs more organizations begin their journey to the cloud, they need to plan how they will apply the best practices of data management to ensure that cloud-based, data-driven use cases are successful for end users and comply with enterprise governance…
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Build KPIs not One Time Reports
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Businesses need to deliver insights fast if not immediately. If this were not true, we would not be writing this post, you wouldn’t be reading it and over all, big data would be less of a diamond in the rough.…