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Data intimacy

February 25, 2009 by Ted Cuzzillo

Long before Scott Davis made the self-service ETL tool he calls Lyza, he tried to find out how analysts really work. He remembers in particular the woman in a focus group who said, “I want to stay close to the data.”

He didn’t understand at first. The data was right in front of her, neatly summarized. But she meant all of the data, every little bit of it. She wanted to snap open a zillion-row-long window that she could scroll down to see the figures flip by. (Yes, you can; I saw it yesterday.) She wouldn’t try to read them, she’d only see their shapes.… Read the rest “Data intimacy”

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BI culture: not a science, more like an art form

May 9, 2008 by Ted Cuzzillo

At 8 o’clock Monday morning, a few hundred attendees at TDWI conference in Chicago will hear the organization’s former education director Dave Wells give his keynote, “People First: Creating a Business Intelligence Culture.” He’ll say something startling: there’s much more to BI than data.

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99 and 44/100ths pure data

April 25, 2008 by Ted Cuzzillo

Is the data clean enough to give us meaning? If you are one of those who insist that the war on dirty data must be won first, forgive me. I’m tired of that conversation. It sounds like backyard mechanics comparing fuel injectors when all that really matters is the commute.

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