You’ve done the hard work. You’ve now gotten to the point of data visualization, but can you trust your results? We’ll look at some tips and strategies on how to avoid ...

Data Analysis

How to Avoid Fallacies in Data

By Loni Schuman Shape on October 17, 2018

Anybody who hangs out in IT or data science circles will invariably become familiar with the acronym GIGO. GIGO stands for “garbage in, garbage out” (or “good in, good ...

Best Practices

Less GIGO, more KNOW: Do's and Don't's in Data Collection and Distribution

By An Bui on September 4, 2018

The idea is pretty simple: the more you have of something, the more challenging it is to manage. This absolutely holds true when it comes to data. Today, we’re seeing ...

Best Practices

Big Data Management: 5 Key Points to Remember

By Bill Kleyman on May 29, 2018

As an analyst who deals with data from many data sources daily, you might find yourself as the go-to source for information about business intelligence in your office. ...

Data Warehousing

9 Things Your Boss Wants to Know About Data Warehousing

By An Bui on February 7, 2018

As your organization moves its data into the cloud, you face the challenge of balancing productivity and efficiency gains with tremendous compliance and security ...

Data Industry Trends

Cloud Security Best Practices

By Cheryl Adams on October 25, 2017

If you ask a group of big data analysts what are some of the top professional challenges they face, you can easily imagine which challenges are consistently shortlisted. ...

Being Data-Driven

How To Get People to Share Data

By Cheryl Adams on September 27, 2017

There are many risks involved with data security. Storing data in the cloud might seem like a safe bet, and for most users it is. But risks will always exist. Below we ...

Best Practices

Top Cloud Data Security Risks, Threats, and Concerns

By Cheryl Adams on September 27, 2017

As more organizations begin their journey to the cloud, they need to plan how they will apply the best practices of data management to ensure that cloud-based, ...

Best Practices

Data Management Best Practices for Cloud Computing

By Cheryl Adams on September 19, 2017