The Importance of Effective Data Literacy
What is data literacy? Data literacy isn’t all that different from literacy in any other...
What is Data Analysis? Data analysis is the process of turning raw data into actionable...
Truck Safety Coalition Uses Data to Push for Safer Roads
Did you know that there were 4,290 large-truck related crashes in 2017? The Truck Safety...
Tableau Prep: Tableau is Simplifying Data Cleanup
Tableau recently promoted its Maestro beta program to a licensed data cleansing and modification tool...
Engineering Legacy Data is Hard. Here’s What to Do About It.
Have you ever tried to get two software systems to share information with each other?...
Making Relationships Work for You – Graph Databases and Logistics Operations
Imagine you are an army mechanic, and you are deployed with resupplying resources days away....
3 Key Architecture Takeaways from DAS 2017
I recently attended the 2017 Data Architecture Summit hosted by DATAVERSITY in Chicago. The audience,...
Cross Post: Five Lessons Learned from Applying Design Thinking to Data Use
Human centered design isn’t a new concept – design thinking tools like ranking exercises, journey...
3 Tips to Pick an Analytics Database Platform
It is an exciting time to be in Data Integration and Solutions Architecture. We’re reaching...
Microsoft Power BI vs. Tableau
Microsoft and Tableau are two of three BI software vendors who are listed as leaders...
Reviewing AWS Data Integration with Matillion
This month, we extended our overview of ETL tools from Open Source to include Matillion,...
5 Great Data Visualization Libraries
The data visualization community is constantly growing and as a result so is the number...