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Data Digest: Uses for Leftover Data Sets, Drawbacks of Data Lakes, Cloud Best Practices

These articles explain why leftover “garbage” data sets actually have value, why you should be skeptical about data lakes, and what to consider when integrating cloud computing to your enterprise.

Think Globally When You're Managing Your Data Locally

Companies in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and elsewhere might not be thinking about the European Union's General Data Privacy Regulation, but they should be.

Data Digest: Edge Analytics, Data-Driven Marketing Opportunities, Decision Rights in Big Data

Today’s articles discuss moving analytics to the site of data collection, finding new target markets with big data, and assigning decision rights for agility with big data.

Data Digest: Preventing Data Leaks, Biased Models, and Poor Predictions

How to stop employees from leaving with enterprise data, avoid seeing causal connections that aren’t there, and create better predictive models by combining diverse data.

Marketing IT In-House: 3 Tips for Telling a Good BI Story

Your business colleagues will remember a great story, so learning to tell your team's story can win and keep your in-house customers.

InsightOps for Advanced Analytics and Data Science

DevOps addresses the challenge of engineering, deploying, and maintaining software for production use. IBM says we need something similar for advanced analytics and data science.

SAP Optimizes BW for HANA, Readies BW for the AWS Cloud

It’s official: SAP BW is coming to HANA, SAP’s in-memory database platform. BW is also coming to the cloud -- in this case, Amazon’s unstoppable AWS.

Microsoft Improves Power BI’s Usefulness as Advanced Analysis Platform

Slowly but surely, Microsoft is making Power BI into an extremely useful platform for advanced analysis. New improvements promise to make analysts even more productive.

Data Stories: Correlation Is Not Causation

Bad visualizations are everywhere: some are created for humor; some are intended to trick viewers. Are you being fooled by misleading charts?

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