The data that you consider pristine and absolutely perfect for its intended use can turn into an absolute mess overnight if the data is used in a different way. While it isn’t common, there are cases where the current uses…

Read below for a roundup of interesting sites, resources, and articles from around the web, curated and contextualized by unbiased analytics experts at IIA. Highlights include articles on the disillusionment of "self-service", a return to data modeling, a massive roadblock…

In 2018, Doug Laney (along with Gartner, Inc.) published Infonomics, a masterful book on how to monetize, manage and measure information as an asset for competitive advantage. This is a very important book for setting the course for how we…

Pulse Survey: 2023 Favorite D&A Conferences It’s that time when we reflect on the past year, and make plans for the coming year. As we’re thinking about our conference plans for 2023, we’re curious what the rest of the data…

Synthetic data, as the name suggests, isn’t real. Instead, it is artificially generated. When first hearing the term “synthetic data,” it is easy to dismiss it as an unserious concept that couldn’t be useful in practice. However, synthetically generated data…

Read below for a roundup of interesting sites, resources, and articles from around the web, curated and contextualized by unbiased analytics experts at IIA. Highlights include articles covering the difference between data lakehouses and data warehouses, how to build a…

In a world where data’s importance is no longer questioned, organizations must reflect on their analytics competency and create plans to improve it. In a recent webinar, Srikanth Nayani, 7-Eleven’s senior director of business analysis, discussed the challenge organizations face…

Data literacy has been a topic in the data and analytics space for several years now. Although, it feels like the level of interest has risen recently. I decided to check one of my favorite data sources – Google Trends…

Before you marinate on the many aha’s at Symposium, we’d be ever appreciative if you took one minute to complete this pulse survey on 2023 in-person gatherings. We will share this data back to the community in a December blog…