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Wednesday, October 02, 2013

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Hadoop and the Extended Data Warehouse Environment

Stephen Swoyer

A recent report from TDWI Research makes the case for a new kind of EDW -- the "extended data warehouse" environment. Think of it as the EDW-e.

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Q&A: 5 Essential Skills to Look For in a Data Scientist

Linda Briggs

What is the role of a data scientist, and what skills does that person need to have? In the first half of a two-part interview, Teradata's chief analytics officer Bill Franks discusses why the term is drawing so much attention and what skills he looks for in a data scientist.

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Tableau Brings Grass Roots Empowerment to Business Users

Cindi Howson

The company recently outlined six themes for its next release, features that boost Tableau to a leadership position in the BI market, says analyst Cindi Howson.

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Predictive Analytics and Business Value

Fern Halper

TDWI Research's Fern Halper examines a pair of preliminary results from the TDWI Predictive Analytics Best Practices survey.

TDWI Webinar Series:

Bridging the Business and IT Divide: Ensuring Success for Your Self- Service BI Project

Speaker: Claudia Imhoff

October
3
9:00AM PT
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You've attended the conferences, read the books and articles, received advice from vendors and implementation companies alike, and maybe even created your first BI prototype. You think you are ready to take on the big project. Compare your progress to the best practices checklist offered in this presentation.

Upcoming Webinars of Interest

Managing Big Data

Big data is changing everything in IT, including data management. In fact, data management is like two decks of playing cards, one deck representing today's traditional techniques, tools, and teams, while the other deck represents new and upcoming ones. Over the next several years, the two decks will be folded together and shuffled, as user organizations consolidate and expand their efforts in both traditional data management and the management of newer data types from Web, social, multi-structured, machine, and streaming sources.

Speaker: Philip Russom

October
8
9:00AM PT

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I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing! Making BI More Consumable

Self-service BI is a popular topic these days. It is beneficial to the IT staff developing the BI environment -- they are freed up to do more value-added activities. It is quite useful for technologically savvy business analysts or data scientists -- they can begin producing their own analytical results.

Speaker: Claudia Imhoff

October
17
9:00AM PT

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Events Calendar

October 7-10, 2013

TDWI Seminar Series: Dimensional Modeling

Minneapolis, MN

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October 20-25, 2013

TDWI World Conference: Business-Driven BI

Boston, MA

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October 15-18, 2013

TDWI Seminar Series: Big Data

San Diego, CA

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