Ten Mistakes to Avoid

The Ten Mistakes to Avoid series, published quarterly, addresses the 10 most common mistakes managers and teams make—from data modeling to building an operational data store—and gives you inside knowledge on how to avoid these common pitfalls. Ten Mistakes to Avoid is exclusively for TDWI Premium Members.

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Ten Mistakes to Avoid when Building Your Data Science Career
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June 3, 2021

If you are hoping to become a data scientist, here are ten mistakes to avoid.


Ten mistakes to avoid in data visualization

Ten Mistakes to Avoid in Data Visualization
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February 5, 2021

This report contains both a framework to understand the components of a data reporting strategy and a list of mistakes that interrupt the path from data to business ROI.


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Ten Mistakes to Avoid in BI Projects
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October 19, 2020

Why, in a world where data skills have never been in greater demand, do so many businesses fail to capitalize on data's potential?


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Ten Mistakes to Avoid When Querying Your Data Lake
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August 14, 2020

We will explain the ten mistakes to avoid when querying data lakes, focusing on effective best practices for keeping data in data lake storage and querying it directly, thereby raising productivity and efficiency and lowering costs and complexity.


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Ten Mistakes to Avoid in Operationalizing Machine Learning
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May 12, 2020

Although many companies are excited about machine learning, they often overlook some key success factors, especially when it comes to deploying and operationalizing ML models into production.


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Ten Mistakes to Avoid in Analytics Initiatives
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January 17, 2020

Business intelligence (BI) has long been a top CIO priority driving technology investment for organizations. Although it is good to see the continued focus on the data and analytics domains, it is also quite disturbing that this seems to imply many of our past investments may not be hitting the mark in terms of success. To help you map out your strategy, we present 10 fatal mistakes you should avoid at all costs based on our experience.


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Ten Mistakes to Avoid When Modernizing Your Business Intelligence Programs
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October 21, 2019

As you embark on your BI modernization effort, you would do well to learn from companies that have successfully completed their own BI modernization projects—and even from companies that have failed in that regard. If you can avoid their pitfalls, you can ensure a successful BI modernization initiative.


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Ten Mistakes to Avoid In Migrating Data and Analytics Platforms to Cloud Infrastructure
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September 13, 2019

This Ten Mistakes to Avoid focuses on helping organizations make the transition from on-premises data and analytics platforms to cloud-based deployments more efficiently and thoughtfully.


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Ten Mistakes to Avoid in Test-Driven Data Warehouse Development
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May 10, 2019

This Ten Mistakes to Avoid focuses on helping organizations sidestep QA problems that many DW projects experienced.


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Ten Mistakes to Avoid for Better BI and Analytics with IoT Data
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March 8, 2019

This Ten Mistakes to Avoid focuses on key issues facing organizations as they determine strategies for generating value from IoT data.


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