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Benefits of the Hadoop-Based Data Lake

In some emerging best practices, a free-form data lake implemented on Hadoop complements a structured relational data warehouse.

5 Minutes with an Analyst: Randy Law, Analytics and Insights

Great data scientists need to be open to a wide variety of perspectives.

Data Digest: Examining All Your Data, Types of Analytics, Predictions for Big Data

How to find value in data that hasn’t been used, what each type of analytics is good for, and making predictions about the future of big data and advanced analytics.

  • By Quint Turner
  • November 3, 2016

It's Official: Metadata Management Is a Strategic Problem

Gartner recently published its first-ever "Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions". Managing metadata isn't a new problem but it has certainly become a strategic one.

Data Digest: Up-to-the-Minute Poll Analysis, Sell Your Data, Improve Visualizations, Understand BI

See an updated consolidation of election polling predictions, plus learn how selling data can be a huge opportunity if approached correctly, how to improve the quality of data visualizations, and understand the basic history and current potential of BI.

  • By Quint Turner
  • November 2, 2016

Data Stories: Salary Growth, Skills in Demand, and The Simpsons

Visualizations are used in these articles to determine which industries pay the highest analyst salaries, which skills are most in demand, and what Homer Simpson’s average salary would be.

  • By Lindsay Stares
  • November 2, 2016

When Is the Risk of New Methods Worth the Reward?

Vodafone combined agile development, data warehouse automation, and flexible data modeling to transform its reporting-centric BI into next-gen analytics.

Data Digest: Lessons from Data Breaches, History of Data Scientists, Current Data Science Paths

The lessons your enterprise should learn from recent data breaches, how data analysts became data scientists, and the skills and knowledge needed to become a data scientist today.

  • By Quint Turner
  • November 1, 2016

5 Minutes with a Data Scientist: Dean Abbott of Abbott Analytics

To provide you with interesting, current information, Upside is collecting quick perspectives from working professionals. Today, meet Dean Abbott, president of Abbott Analytics.