The Art of the Start, for your Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence Project
Finding it difficult to start your project? In this post, I provide 5 tips for a quick start and more importantly to begin extracting the value from data in no time. Let me start with a simple...
View ArticleData Preparation and Why Should you Care?
Data Preparation is the process of gathering, combining, structuring and organizing data so it can be analysed as part of business intelligence (BI) and business analytics (BA) programs. The components...
View ArticleHow to Transition Your Career to Data Science
In this post, I present a few practical pointers for someone wanting to start a career in the Data Science field. This week, Silvana (from Switzerland) asked me: “I’ve been working for seven years in...
View ArticleI’m turning 41, and I feel great!
I am turning 41 today, and if I have to describe the feeling with one word, that word would be GRATITUDE! Gratitude to my parents, brother, wife, sons, friends, teachers, colleagues, managers and every...
View ArticleTechnology, a Call to Creativity
Let’s start with a short story; The History of Ice In the early 1800’s one of the thriving industries was that of Ice Harvesting. The only method to freeze foods or chill beverages was with ice cut...
View ArticleBest of Breed Systems and the Missing Reports/Data
Gone are the days of implementing a single Integrated System (a.k.a. ERP) to support all business processes. Instead, organisations are opting for the use of multiple systems (from multiple vendors),...
View ArticleRealise the Power of Analytics with Power BI
Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak at a public event about Power BI and how it can be used to realise the real value of Data Analytics. I know Power BI has become very popular in the Data...
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