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In my previous piece, I touched on the rise of data visualisation, and how it should be positioned in the organisation to achieve real insight from their data. In this piece I cover 8 aspects that should be avoided, in order to ensure that only clear and correct messages are conveyed to the business. Failing …
Over recent years, data visualisation has certainly made a positive impact, which is no surprise given that it can help organisations achieve real insight from data. But beyond this, it’s also a smart way for us to understand complicated information in a more user friendly way that furthers cognitive understanding. To my mind, if organisations …
Gather round, gather round! We hear an eerie sound… I remember the old times around the holiday campfire when smooth talking uncle Alfred with his grand imagination and picturesque speech would tell spooky ghost stories that would make the children huddle closer and closer together, and well, ensure they don’t wander off exploring in the …
Over the last few years, we have seen large organisations implement analytical technologies, like Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence (BI) and even Big Data Analytics, and we have seen some of them achieve the objective of a positive Return on Investment (ROI) on these initiatives. However, does the same reality apply to small to medium sized …
Since my initial post on data visualisation (http://www.martinsights.com/?p=492), I have noticed a steady increasing interest in the topic. This is especially noticeable in the business intelligence (BI) field, as more and more organisations are realising the value of using visualisation to positively affect their day-to-day interactions with data. In this post I focus on the …
As this is my last blog post for the year, I thought it would be fitting to explore how the Business Intelligence (BI) landscape has changed over the years, especially regarding toolsets. Having worked in the BI sector for numerous years – in the last five years the BI toolset landscape has not only expanded, …
There is a very interesting relationship between big data and digital preservation. Preservationists work with very similar data types – equally complex, variable, voluminous and sparse. However, preserving big data introduces its own challenges. What of it is necessary to hang on to? Some memory institutions, as libraries and museums are called, have started using …
In my previous blog I discussed the concept of data discovery or exploratory data analysis and how organisations are using it more and more today. A related concept is data mining. Now while data discovery is used to analyse the data resource of the organisation in order to understand what data elements there are and …
New concepts and technologies continue to emerge in the business intelligence space, which brings new business challenges and of course new opportunities for organisations to understand and ultimately leverage it for business benefit. One such concept that first appeared a few years back, but has yet to get the full attention it deserves, is data …
This post is about an interesting debate around the relevance of graphic design skills in the data scientist’s portfolio. Should there be a graphical designer in the data science team? Should graphic design be taught in the data science curriculum?
