

Analytics doesn't need to be dramatic to be valuable
Data Science? With a term like data science we may be guilty of unconsciously setting unrealistically high expectations. In the common vernacular the tone of the word "science" is that of certainty. However, to a true scientist nothing could be further from the truth. Science talks about theories and continual testing of those. Theories are living, breathing things and evolve with no static certainty, only consensus about what is broadly accepted currently. Refining measure


Self-service reporting on the cheap
Only you can prevent forest fires In the quest to be more data driven and to harness the power of data science, more and more is being asked from our data reporting technologists. These are the DBAs, database developers, etc whose charge it is to stand up our data warehouses, data marts, and pull ad hoc data from our transactional systems. Reporting often ends up being a bottleneck in analytics pipelines but with the perennial problems of time, capacity, and budget constrai