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Data served direct-to-exec with Napkyn

April 3, 2014 by Ted Cuzzillo 6 Comments

We’ve heard about shortage of data-analysis help, and about senior execs who pooh-pooh the influence of analysis in decision-making, and about the “dead” self-service analysis. So when a vendor tells me about a direct-to-exec service, featuring a sort of concierge of analytics, I pull up a chair to listen. Napkyn, five years old last month […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: analysis, books, data analysis, Napkyn, Products, Wayne Eckerson

Data managers should emulate good librarians

April 15, 2011 by Ted Cuzzillo 5 Comments

Haul away the hardware, peel off the software, rinse off the mystique and you see what the people who manage data really are: They’re librarians. That’s the role IT workers should model themselves on. I’m not talking about technology. I don’t care what tools anyone uses. Whether we’re talking about bound paper known as “books” […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: books, culture, Karen Schneider, librarian, tools, trend

Wayne Eckerson, BI explainer, jumps to TechTarget

November 4, 2010 by Ted Cuzzillo 4 Comments

One of the business intelligence industry’s best explainers, Wayne Eckerson, is leaving TDWI for TechTarget. For the everyday BI expert, it’s good gossip. — But for those still on the learning curve, it’s a cue to switch channels. “It’s true,” he told me this morning about the rumors, “I’m departing the big TDWI in the […]

Filed Under: BI industry Tagged With: books, tdwi, Wayne Eckerson

How to analyze unfamiliar data: circle, dive, and riff

October 18, 2010 by Ted Cuzzillo 3 Comments

When you come face to face with unfamiliar data, how do you proceed? How do you avoid sending yourself and your shiny “speed of thought” tool slamming into a dead end? Dan Murray’s got a routine — and he’s also got certain music and right-brained books to go along. Dan’s first rule: “Don’t pre-think.” It’s […]

Filed Under: analysis & methods Tagged With: books, Dan Murray, Tableau, tools

“Streetlights and Shadows”

January 15, 2010 by Ted Cuzzillo 2 Comments

Some of the books Stephen Few reviews may at first glance to have little to do with data analysis. On second glance, though, they have everything to do with it. He often goes into the essence of thinking, insight, and decision making — core knowledge for BI practitioners. See his latest, posted yesterday afternoon, on […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: books, in media, Stephen Few

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