Data Strategy
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The research outlines best practices for enabling self-service analytics, emphasizing alignment with business goals, collaborative development between IT and business, and lightweight management for effective data and analytics success.
LinkHow to Enable Self-Service Analytics to Ensure D&A Success
The amount of data we now access has grown far faster than the general level of data literacy in companies. Most companies have too much data, it’s stored in too many places, it’s not ‘clean’ and it’s often more confusing than helpful when it comes to what matters – making decisions with it. We need to ensure companies create centralized yet
... See moreTom Goodwin • Digital Darwinism: Survival of the Fittest in the Age of Business Disruption (Kogan Page Inspire)
In today’s data world, there are so many options for an EL tool to avoid you developing your own extracting script and to help you gain a LOT of time.
Fivetran, Mage, and Airbyte to mention a few.
You don’t have to maintain custom scripts, these tools come with +300 connectors, basic scheduling, and error handling.
Jeremy • What I Learned After One Year of Building a Data Platform From Scratch
Meta-data management. Meta-data, which is commonly defined as “data about the data” is used to ensure traceability throughout the environment and ensure there is a common understanding of the meaning of the information contained in the BI environment.
Steve Williams • The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence
The starting point of any RAG system is its source data, often consisting of a vast corpus of text documents, websites, or databases
DataStax • Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Explained: Understanding Key Concepts
Also, eliminating irrelevant or sensitive information such as personally identifiable information (PII) is crucial to align with privacy standards
DataStax • Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Explained: Understanding Key Concepts
The purpose of metadata is not simply to describe data and information assets, but rather to proactively answer questions that consumers might have about them. Where did this data come from? How up to date is it? How trustworthy is it? What business process(es) created it? What business process(es) use it? What transformations or filtering have... See more
Larry Burns • The Currency of Information: Managing Data as an Asset (Part Three)
Yet many of us who have tried to use data to inform decisions in organizations have experienced a different reality. One where we are constantly confused by how metrics are defined, bicker over how to interpret various analyses, and struggle to apply the insights into action.
Julie Zhuo • The Data-Informed Manifesto
Data is always an abstraction of reality based on underlying assumptions as to how to categorize the unstructured phenomena of the real world.