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Updated November 17, 2022

The number of data analysts at your organization is a limiting factor that determines how many stakeholders are able to make data-driven decisions. To make better-informed decisions, organizations need to increase the number of people with the tools and expertise…

Updated November 15, 2022

Our partnership with Snowflake has drastically sped up our customers' data processing capabilities by eliminating the need for tedious data engineering tasks. By driving workloads directly to Snowflake, users can create accelerated time-to-prediction rates and a more efficient method to…

Updated November 10, 2022

Effective data storytelling is essential for turning insights into impact. But how do you craft a story that truly drives action? Developing an analytics-driven culture is a gradual process that is strengthened over time through purposeful and effective data storytelling..…

Updated November 8, 2022

Recently, I was talking to the head of technology at a retail conglomerate. The executive was actively planning his foray into data science and asked me, “How can we make the transition from business intelligence (BI) to artificial intelligence (AI)?”…

Updated November 3, 2022

This post was written in collaboration with Swaroop Oggu, Solutions Architect at Databricks.  Dimensional analysis is an important tool for building analytics-oriented data products (e.g. interactive dashboards) based on data assets managed in a lakehouse. Historically, dimensional analysis has been…

Updated November 1, 2022

We recently hosted a virtual Semantic Layer Summit with our friends at Snowplow, Databricks, DAS42, and InterSystems. During the event, we gathered data leaders and top industry technologists to discuss the importance and impact of using a semantic layer for…

Updated October 27, 2022

Data quality is one of the most difficult — yet essential — elements for businesses to master to achieve their operational goals. This post explores multiple facets of data quality and explains how to turn fragmented, inaccurate, and unusable data…

Updated October 25, 2022

I recently spoke with a roundtable of data and culture industry experts about how to foster an analytics-driven culture to drive more actionable, valuable insights. We discussed how organizations can become data leaders, the importance of change management, and why…

Updated October 20, 2022

How To Implement Decision Intelligence in Your Enterprise With A Semantic Layer On average, firms invest over $38 million in data and analytics. However, more than 79% of these firms end up with zero or negative returns on this investment.…

Updated October 18, 2022

The purpose of this blog is to introduce the modern data landscape. We want to provide our perspective on the data and analytics industry — where we’ve been, where we are now, and where we are heading. We’ll also discuss…