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Trifacta – Wrangling Dates (and yet another open data rant)
One of the pieces of data we use regularly is dates. Every data repository needs the ability to view the data by day, month, year, etc. There is often also a need to view data based on holidays. Funnily enough, you would think that a list of data containing the NZ...
Guided vs Discovery vs Blending Information Products
I have seen a massive change in the business intelligence, data and analytics tools our customers are buying and using over the last couple of years. The advent of data wrangling tools such as Trifacta, open-source analytics tools such as R and visual exploration...
Evaluating BI tools – Don’t get left hanging
Evaluating BI tools used to be easy. You either took a stack approach and picked a vendor first, then selected the modules you wanted to use from their product catalog. Or you picked one thing you wanted to do extremely well and selected a best of breed product/vendor...
Hans Hultgren – The 2016 NZ Data Vault Certification Tour
As you may have worked out if you have been reading our blogs for a while, we are big fans of the Data Vault approach as a way of automating the Integration layer of a Data Warehouse (DW). In 2014, we sent a couple of our DW experts to Sydney to attend Hans...
The challenges and risks of being an Agile BI Manager
As a BI manager who decides to empower their team by introducing an AgileBI approach, there is a massive amount of risk in that simple action.
The Big Guess Up Front (BGUF)
The way we used to deliver Business Intelligence projects was to do what I call the “big guess up front” (BGUF). No more!
Boil boil toil and trouble – 3 Data Mining recipes
As part of the work we are doing to develop our one-day workshop titled 'from data analyst to data scientist', we have been researching the CRISP-DM methodology as it's a core part of one of the workshop modules. There are three main data mining methodologies that are...
The death of the 100 page BI Strategy
The AgileBI approach has fundamentally changed the way and the more importantly the focus of why we deliver Business Intelligence strategies.
AWS – Remember to check your Region
We play with a lot of the new stuff in AWS when it comes out to see what it does, how it works and to think about how we can incorporate it into what we do to remove manual effort. Every now and again we see a feature documented and for some reason can't seem to find...
Retrospective – No Meetings
As I outlined in my earlier blog AgileBI fundamentally changes the team’s traditional view of meetings. It’s interesting watching how new teams adapt to this change. An example from one of the teams I worked with recently is …
AgileBI Culture Change – No Meetings
One of the biggest challenges of using Agile methods to deliver BI projects, is the massive change in the way the team has to work.
3 Free Things
I was talking to somebody recently who had been dropped into the deep end in the world of Business Intelligence (so to speak) at their organisation and wanted to know what was required to be able to deliver information and some advanced analytical models. I was...