We live in a world where data has become more important than ever. In fact, the World Economic Forum calls data the new “It currency”, every bit as valuable as oil and gold. Yet, despite the fact that data has…
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Are You Data Literate?
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How Much Data Do You Really Need?
We live in a world where knowledge is believed to equal power. As a result, most of us abhor the uncertainty of not knowing. When we have questions, we want to turn to data – cold, hard facts — to…
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Before You Can Think Big Data, You Need to Think Big Clean!
“Big Data” and “data science” have become buzzwords and focus areas for many companies. However, the key to predictive analytics is not data size or more sophisticated tools; it’s clean data. Quality Matters In a previous post about the importance…
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Garbage In, Garbage Out: Why Data Quality is the Foundation for Good Analytics
“Analytics is the discovery and communication of meaningful patterns in data.” (Wikipedia, May 2014) What Are Analytics Per its definition, analytics is an umbrella term for the process of gaining knowledge from data and communicating meaningful insights. Companies are increasingly…
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Rubyconf Taiwan 2014 Recap
Last month I had the honor of being able to speak at Rubyconf Taiwan with a talk about Analytics for the Busy Ruby Developer. Rubyconf Taiwan is a two day, two track conference dedicated to all things Ruby that had…
Analytics for the Busy Ruby Developer Slides are up!
Recently I gave a talk at Rubyconf Taiwan about Analytics in Ruby. Check out the slides below!
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