Meeting the company’s goals is the responsibility of everyone in the organization, so even those who aren’t directly influencing the cost or the revenue side should know what those goals are. “No matter who you are, you are directly or indirectly affecting key company metrics,” said Vanessa Lam, Business Intelligence Manager for Optoro. Lam shared […]
Getting Ahead of Data Matching: Building the Right Strategies for Today and Tomorrow
Click to learn more about author Harald Smith. Every organization understands the importance of matching and connecting the same entities together (and the role of data quality capabilities to do so), but too often they take a limited view toward it, building data matching processes to address the situation in the moment but not taking […]
2019 DATAVERSITY Top 20
It is once again time to look back and evaluate the struggles and successes of the previous year and then build those lessons into the year to come. Part of how we do that here at DATAVERSITY is to look at the content consumed by the community over the year and evaluate what was hot […]
Driving More Data Value as the Outcome with DataOps
Click to learn more about author Itamar Ankorion. We know data increases business success if utilized well and in the right situations. But, how do we know we have the right data? How do we dig through thousands of data sets to leverage the one insight that will drive a specific, improved business outcome? This […]
The Importance of Data Literacy
Walk into a company embracing digital transformation and you’ll find monitors displaying colorful charts and pie graphs decorated with numbers. These dashboards show information about the business meant to assist employees in prioritizing work, seeing new opportunities, and driving efficiency. An important question remains, though: “How many employees trained on a business’ dashboards know how […]
Boosting Interest in Data by Branding the Importance of Data Literacy
Click to learn more about author Michael D. Shaw. If we can do one thing in 2019 to increase interest in data, let it be that: to increase interest by way of launching a campaign that appeals to the hearts and minds of teachers and students, of employers and employees, of experts and novices alike; […]
Data Literacy and the Colin Powell Rule: From Frontline Field Support to Back Office Operations
Click to learn more about author Paul Barth. Colin Powell famously said that leaders should make critical decisions based on a defined zone of uncertainty. Acting with less than 40% of the data needed is reckless; waiting for more than 70% of the data may be fatal. Balancing time and certainty is a challenge for […]
Back to School: Data Literacy and an Urgent Reason to Study Data
Click to learn more about author Carie Lemack. A literate society is not necessarily a numerate one. Where one is absent, the other is almost always lacking, because it is hard to appreciate—never mind articulate—the fullness of an idea without a full vocabulary. Expanding that vocabulary must be a national priority, beginning in primary and secondary […]
How Can the Chief Data Officer Facilitate Data Literacy and Data Democracy?
“Data Literacy: It’s all about how to get people in an organization engaged so that they can make decisions and take actions that can collectively drive better decision-making,” said Harald Smith, Director of Product Management at Syncsort. Smith is a strong proponent of Data Democracy. “Data Democratization” is the idea that digital information should be […]
Qlik Reveals Data Literacy Skills Shortage in US
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Qlik, a leader in data analytics, today announced the results from its U.S. Data Literacy Survey, revealing an escalating skills gap preventing those in the workforce from making strategic, data-driven decisions. Data literacy and analytics skills can help companies and their employees capitalize on an unprecedented […]