New post: “The new Teradata in three words” Teradata rolled out its new tagline last week: “pervasive data intelligence.” One half of it works predictably well. The other part, “pervasive,” is the tricky part.
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Tableau’s first conference / What a little tool proved
The world was about to discover Tableau, but first came the Tableau conference crammed into a hotel on the Seattle waterfront. The story was clear: we tried out our data on this new tool and by the end of the afternoon we had to show the boss what we found. While Qlik was waking up to data literacy, Tableau wants you to know it’s been there all the time. Just look over at Tableau Public. That free platform has served more than 300,000 authors creating over 10,000 new visualization per week. Last year Tableau Public surpassed one million vizzes published, which were viewed more than […] Qlik’s director of data literacy Jordan Morrow saw validation of his program soon after he took the job: His new series of online modules, he reports, rose to four of the top 10 downloads within the first couple of months. None of the modules were easy. Being on subjects like basic statistics, they sure weren’t […] Qlik could have forgotten the tired slogans — such as “data is the new currency” — at the recent Qlik Qonnections and gone straight for the what makes Qlik stand out. That starts with their tastiest, chewiest morsel: their apparently serious campaign for data literacy. What is data literacy? Valerie Logan, Gartner data and analytics […]Who needs data literacy when you’ve got data pictures? / Tableau
Jordan Morrow sees data literacy taking off at Qlik
Qlik: serious about data literacy