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Got analytics? Who will promote the industry?

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Business people have everything. They’ve got data, and often it’s clean. They’ve got tools, and many are easy to use. They’ve got visualizations, many of which help. They’ve got domain knowledge, at least most do. What some front line observers find they lack is analytical thinking.

Given descriptive data, few business users that BI icon Claudia Imhoff sees ask even the simplest followup questions, like “why?” Is what the data shows good for the business or not? If not, what can be done?

Claudia, along with IBM marketing director Harriet Fryman, raised the question this summer at the Pacific Northwest BI Summit.… Read the rest “Got analytics? Who will promote the industry?”

Big Data, big hype, big danger

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A remarkable thing happened in Big Data last week. One of Big Data’s best friends poked fun at one of its icons: the Three V’s.

The well-networked and alert observer Shawn Rogers, vice president of research at Enterprise Management Associates, tweeted his eight V’s: “…Vast, Volumes of Vigorously, Verified, Vexingly Variable Verbose yet Valuable Visualized high Velocity Data.”

He was quick to explain to me that this is no comment on Gartner analyst Doug Laney’s three-V definition. Shawn’s just tired of people getting stuck on V’s.

How strange to be stuck on a definition, but we get stuck all the time trying to define Big Data.… Read the rest “Big Data, big hype, big danger”

Data surfing with big data

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The usual big-data story leaves out crucial bits. We hear about the “what” — big, huge data of all kinds. We hear about the “when” — now and coming soon. We hear about the “how” — Hadoop with helpers. But we almost never hear about the “who” and the “why.” Who’s bothering to analyze all this data, and why?