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Survey of people who analyze data

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The people who translate raw data into meaning — sometimes titled “data analyst” but often not — are some of the least understood in business and the most valuable. If you’ve read much of Datadoodle, you know that I’m trying to understand them better. Now I’ve launched a survey.

If you play any part in data analysis, please take part in the survey. You may analyze data or you may be a champion of data analysis, or both. You may or may not call yourself a “data analyst.” You may not even do any of this at work, only at home.… Read the rest “Survey of people who analyze data”

New data analysts and teenage love

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Search all the business literature you can and you’ll never find data analysis compared to romantic love. But, hey, why not? Love’s trajectories might hint at what the business world’s newly enabled generation of data analysts can expect.

These data analysts tend to be independent, are often creative and at least partly self-trained. They’re strapped to rockets from Tableau, Lyzasoft, Predixion, and others, tools that are at first deceptively toy-like. Aren’t they analogous to the garden variety teenager? Bothg groups revel in newly discovered tools, while both pursuits are fundamentally social — as Lyzasoft CEO Scott Davis observes about data analysis.… Read the rest “New data analysts and teenage love”

A “Bart” just wants protection from the “Marges” and “Homers”

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One of the pleas in Mark Madsen’s fascinating keynote at the TDWI conference in Las Vegas was to let the “Barts” work. The Barts are, of course, the Bart Simpsons among us, the sometimes nerdy rebels who actually come up with interesting analyses and other useful things.

When the lights went up, a “Bart” was right nearby me at the big round table. Though he “loved” Mark’s salute to his work, consultant Rick Paul wanted more.

As a Bart, he works with a lot of “Marges” and “Homers.” In Mark’s model, the Homers are the everyday business intelligence consumers, about 80 percent of most work groups.… Read the rest “A “Bart” just wants protection from the “Marges” and “Homers””