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Data Digest: 2017 Analytics Trends, Prevent Automation Errors, Avoid Big Data Failures

Read predictions for analytics in 2017, how human knowledge may prevent automation errors, and how knowing the right context provides value in big data.

That Was the Year That Was: Major BI Events of 2016 (and Predictions for 2017)

Industry analyst Michael Schiff shares the results of last year's predictions and what he foresees in the coming year.

5 Minutes with an Analyst: Mike Driscoll of Metamarkets

Mike Driscoll of Metamarkets explains where data analytics and data science are headed, the tools and techniques that have great potential, and the beauty of tables in displaying analytics results.

Data Stories: Employment Gains and Losses, Job Satisfaction, and Job Trends

These visualizations explore employment across different sectors, factors that affect job satisfaction, and the most common jobs across the U.S.

The Internet of Things and the Security of Us

The risks posed by the Internet of Things are still not fully understood. Devices that connect to the Internet without proper security are trouble waiting to happen.

Interest in Spark Shows No Signs of Cooling Off

The Apache Spark cluster computing framework is widely used in the enterprise, and most adopters expect to increase their use of Spark over the next year, according to a recent survey of big data professionals.

Data Digest: Starting Analytics Projects, Data Wrangling, Governing Self-Service BI

How to get started with data analytics, improve your data wrangling, and set expectations for data governance in self-service BI.

Data Science Is More than Data: Cultivate Business Knowledge and Relationships

Data scientist Deb Cooper explains how her business understanding impacts her work and why data scientists and advanced analytics practitioners should cultivate support from business sponsors.

At re:Invent, Amazon Enhances AWS Yet Again

At the re:Invent conference, Amazon announced a slew of new products, services, and features, including a technology for querying against its S3 storage service and a new AI framework.