Analytics Professionals: Know When to Quit
Ok, full disclosure, this really has nothing to do with quitting your job. On the contrary, if you work in the field of analytics it
An Introduction to Data Solutions
At LeapFrogBI we use the term data solution to refer to the portion of the overall analytics system that acquires data and makes it report-ready.
Buyer Beware: What You Should Know Before Purchasing Analytics Software
These days you can buy some really great analytics software. In the past ten years it has improved dramatically, and today it enables rapid report
Why Analytics Projects are a Mistake
Before you go and start a new analytics project, consider these sobering statistics. As far back as 2005 Gartner began ringing the warning bells.
The Key to Analytics That Everyone Should Understand
(This is the final part of a three-part series illuminating the challenges of data analytics and describing a proven solution to the problem.) In part one,
Five Reasons Your Data Analyst Can’t Analyze
In part one of this series, Measuring the Cost of Doing Business with Insufficient Analytics, I referenced a series of studies conducted over the past five
Measuring the Cost of Doing Business With Insufficient Analytics
A recent survey conducted by CrowdFlower and summarized on Forbes found data scientists spend most of their time massaging rather than modeling or mining data for
What you should know before you go sailing on the data lake
The ”data lake”, a catchy new buzzword in analytics circles, has many people wondering if they still need a data warehouse. You may have heard