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Derrick Martins  (Founder),  David Callahan  (Editor)  & the rest of the BI Corner team
Lost in Translation: Big Data Innovation is Missing the Point
Business Intelligence as currently practiced does not work

Why? Recent innovation in Big Data has focused on the wrong problem: building a better mouse trap, rather than innovating the entire approach. For example, take Tableau or Qlik. Both offer significantly better Data Discovery than the previous generation of tools; however, despite marketing claims around ease of use and a low level of technical expertise needed, these tools are still designed for experienced analysts and data scientists. + Read More
Data science is easy but...
Making it work is hard

In the world of data science, there are three core problems: acquiring data, doing the math and taking action. Two of those drive data scientists crazy; the other one they find easy. "Doing the math" is what most people think of as data science. Algorithms, machine learning, cognitive tools, deep learning and the word stochastic are often not far away. That's the easy bit. Now let me define easy: Data science is easy if you have the right data scientists.  + Read More
You Are Doing Analytics Wrong: Here Is Why
Analytics ROI falls short because businesses overlook important parts of the process

Businesses across industries want to compete on insights, and yet many of them aren't getting the ROI they expect. Somewhere between raw data and actionable insights, processes break down or they don't exist. It's not just a tool problem. Organizations need to change the way they think and behave.  + Read More
How to avoid big data analytics failures
Best practices to blow past the competition

Big data and analytics initiatives can be game-changing, giving you insights to help blow past the competition, generate new revenue sources, and better serve customers. Big data and analytics initiatives can also be colossal failures, resulting in lots of wasted money and time-not to mention the loss of talented technology professionals who become fed up at frustrating management blunders.  + Read More
Learn Data Science
Using Eight (Easy) Steps

After being dubbed by Harvard Business Review as "sexiest job of the 21st Century" in 2012, Glassdoor named it "the best job of the year" for 2016. However, the stance towards data scientists has changed considerably over those four years: in 2012, the majority of articles focused on trying to explain what a data scientist is and what they do exactly. Back then, a short search on Google on the words "How to become a data scientist" showed that the concept had different meanings to different people.  + Read More
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