The appeal of being a data analyst or data scientist does not come from cleaning messy data. And yet, it’s the activity that often ends up consuming the majority of their total analytic time—on average, 80 percent of it—while just 20 percent is dedicated to visualizing and analyzing data, creating machine learning models, or other […]
More Will Davis • September 22, 2020 There’s a common misperception about data management, and it goes something like this: Consolidating your organization’s data into a centralized analytics environment solves everyone’s problems in finding, accessing, and using data. And when it comes to analytics, you can just run statistical algorithms leveraging high-performance computing engines and voilà! Relevant, accurate, meaningful, and actionable data […]
More Will Davis • September 14, 2020 I’ve been thinking about the intersection of data, guidance, and action. Here in the United States, we’re still in the teeth of COVID19, awash in data that’s changing constantly and is difficult to trust. It’s confusing and frustrating. You want guidance from a reputable source so that you can adapt quickly and get back to […]
More Will Davis • September 3, 2020 This is the fourth post in an ongoing series about how marketers are leveraging Trifacta. It follows previous posts on marketing data onboarding, marketing analytics, and building a 360º view of the customer experience. What is marketing analytics‘ opportunity and challenge in the modern business landscape? Some marketers might say that it’s digital ads. Digital […]
More Will Davis • June 18, 2020 This is the third post in a series about how marketers are leveraging Trifacta, following our first post on onboarding marketing data and our second post on marketing analytics. In this post, we discuss how Trifacta is being used to increase upsell opportunities through customer marketing. The most cost-effective form of marketing is to your […]
More Will Davis • May 22, 2020 How can Martha Stewart be of any relevance in a blog post titled “What is data structure?” Stay with us and we promise to explain how Martha can teach us about basic and advanced data structures. When thinking of data structure, think of your car keys. Suppose you’ve lost your car keys at least once […]
More Will Davis • May 19, 2020