Today’s organizations are using generative AI for some applications and experimenting with others. What are forward-looking companies doing now to plan for the next horizon? In a recent roundtable, ...

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Creating performance metrics is as much art as science. To guide you in your quest, here are 12 characteristics of effective performance metrics. 1. Strategic. To create effective performance metrics, ...

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Data storytelling is the practice of building a narrative around a set of data and its accompanying visualizations to help convey the meaning of that data in a powerful and compelling fashion.

I went to a small, liberal arts college in western Massachusetts whose mascot is a “purple cow” -- presumably chosen because of the large number of cows that graze in the foothills of nearby mountains ...

Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) is the process of examining and visualizing data sets to uncover patterns, relationships, anomalies, and initial insights before applying formal statistical modeling or ...

Visit the CBIP group at tdwi.org/linkedin/cbip. Since 2003, TDWI and the ICCP have provided the CBIP certification to global business and industry through their ...

Analytic sandboxes are proving to be a key tactic in liberating business analysts to explore data while preventing the proliferation of spreadmarts and renegade data marts. Many BI teams already ...

I was recently on a group call along with several other analysts where IBMers spelled out their definition of big data. They structured the definition by explaining big data’s primary attributes, ...

Leadership and Management is a key success factor for BI programs and projects, with a strong focus on effectively integrating people, processes, and technology to deliver business value. The field ...

[NOTE -- My new TDWI report about High-Performance Data Warehousing (HiPer DW) is finished and will be published in October. The report’s Webinar will broadcast on October 9, 2012. In the meantime, ...