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Data Digest: Cost of Poor Data Quality, Security for Digital Disruptors, Removing Data Silos

How much unrefined data may start costing enterprises, why a disruptive business strategy requires data security, and why some enterprises are still unwilling to let go of departmental data silos.

Will Embedding Analytics Increase Adoption?

A recent survey report states that access to self-service is rising, but adoption is falling. However, their findings imply that overall use is relatively steady.

Q&A: Nonprofits Have Huge Need, Little Understanding of Analytics

An expert in nonprofit management discusses how nonprofits of all sizes can benefit from the strategic use of analytics.

Q&A: Simpler Analytics Can Reach More Users

Driven by business demands, easy-to-use tools are pushing analytics deeper into the enterprise. By stressing ease of use, vendors strive to deliver more insights and reach more users.

Data Digest: 2017 Big Data and IoT Predictions, Big Data Myths, Causes of Analytics Failure

Today read 10 predictions for big data and IoT, a discussion of the biggest myths about big data, and the most common reasons big data and analytics initiatives fail.

Data Stories: Create Better Tables, Violin Plots, and Infographics

Learn to create clearer tables, when and how to use violin plots, and why infographics might improve BI adoption.

7 Vendors at Strata/Hadoop World 2016: First Impressions

Fern Halper, vice president and senior director of TDWI research for advanced analytics, offers her perspective on announcements from seven vendors.

CASE: A Clue About How Self-Service Could Ultimately Evolve

Do the high-level lessons of the computer-aided software engineering craze of the 1980s apply to self-service? The effects of CASE tools are similar to self-service tools, and the fate of CASE suggests how self-service might ultimately evolve.

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