Click to learn more about author Bernard Brode. Once upon a time, humans communicated meaning through stories. Epic tales of adventure and intrigue, memorable myths of heroes and their trials and travails — these were the parameters around which people framed their individual lives. Today, it’s all about the numbers. From business to advertising and […]
Steering Clear of the Data Compliance Scavenger Hunt
Click to learn more about author Balaji Ganesan. As the song goes, “…the more things change, the more they stay the same;” the same holds true for the IT industry. Data warehouses began to appear on the IT scene in the late 1980s as a decision support system used for reporting and data analysis. These […]
What Is a Data Analyst?
Data analysts help businesses make better, more informed decisions by not only collecting and investigating data, but also translating the relevant information into useful observations for their customers, which can include technical staff, business teams, or leadership. In many organizations, data analyst and data scientist roles share similarities, but data analysts focus on speedily interpreting […]
How to Handle Semi-Structured Data: JSON Functions
Click to learn more about author Eva Murray. The world has seen an explosion in data with an incredible amount of data being produced every single day (2.5 quintillion bytes, an almost incomprehensible number). Much of this data is semi-structured or unstructured data, stemming from the content produced on social media platforms in the form […]
Data Architect vs. Data Modeler vs. Data Engineer
Michael Bowers, author and Chief Data Architect at FairCom Corporation, initially set out to research three careers in his presentation titled Data Architect vs. Data Modeler vs. Data Engineer for the DATAVERSITY® Data Architecture Online 2019 Conference. The process brought him to a wealth of information he would have appreciated much earlier in his career, […]
Setting Management Expectations in Machine Learning
Click to learn more about author Edward Wong. Data scientists and analysts spend most of their day interacting with data problems – preparing data for analysis, writing and testing algorithms, etc. However, every so often you will have to present and justify your work to management and answer their questions. After all, they’re likely paying […]
What Makes a Data Analyst?
Click to learn more about author Mathias Golombek. Today’s businesses rely heavily on customer, product, process, input and market data. They increasingly need talented, skilled people who can extract information and insights from the data. But what skills are employers looking for? In data analytics, there are some skills and qualities employers look for in all applicants. While education […]
The Data Analysts of the Future: What Will They be Doing?
The need for citizen data scientists — people who can use real-time, data-powered insights — will be on the rise with the widespread availability of data and AI-enabled, self-service analytics platforms. So, the best job of the century may be at risk. Smart machine learning algorithms can analyze and interpret data, and even produce content […]
AtScale Adds Sophisticated Time-Series Analysis with 2019.2 Platform Release
According to a recent press release, “AtScale, the data warehouse virtualization company, today announced its new 2019.2 platform release. The latest release augments AtScale’s autonomous data engineering innovations with the introduction of a sophisticated time-series and time-relative analysis capability for large volumes of data across disparate databases and platforms. This new capability enables data analyst […]
How to Become a Data-Driven Enterprise
Click to learn more about author Matthew Baird. Over the past few years, becoming “data-driven” has emerged as a popular objective for organizations across a variety of industries. Simply put, being data-driven involves leveraging existing operational and customer data as well as external data sources for both tactical and strategic decision-making. Such an approach complemented […]