We return to a topic that has interested us lately, which is how organizations might be able to use generative artificial intelligence, or GenAI, to supplement their analytics efforts. Particularly...
July 10, 2025
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Aaron Walker
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A few weeks ago we posed some questions in this space, among them, what is it exactly we expect analytics to do for us, and how do we see artificial intelligence (AI) fitting into that expectation?...
May 12, 2025
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Aaron Walker
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In recent months we have read a number of articles and blog posts arguing that organizations really need to get their data quality in order prior to exposing data to generative artificial...
November 07, 2024
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Aaron Walker
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It’s football season, and if you watch games, you’ve probably seen something like this. It’s fourth down, deep in your opponent's territory. Should you go for it? Should you attempt a field goal? How...
Your organization faces numerous challenges as it makes its way towards analytics maturity. We are deliberately using that phrase loosely, since what that maturity looks like for your organization...
December 14, 2022
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Jim Walery
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We have a great deal of resources (blog posts, videos, and recorded webinars) related to a variety of topics and components in data governance (or what we call data intelligence).
Topics include: ...
July 06, 2022
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Aaron Walker
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Many clients come to us when they are planning, or after they have embarked on, an overhaul to their business intelligence (BI) stack. They have often determined that their legacy tools are not...
We spend a lot of time in conversation with prospective and active clients talking about their quest to be (more) data-driven. In those conversations, it can be taken for granted what "data-driven"...
Data visualization tools as well as design shops - this is an insufficient and reductive description for talented professionals who take data visualizations and tailor them further into often...
March 09, 2022
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Aaron Walker
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Over the past few months, we have explored the concept of data literacy in an individual and organizational capacity. Organizations are being pushed to be more data-centric just to keep up with the...
June 10, 2021
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Jim Walery
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Reporting (or analytics) and data governance (or as we call it data intelligence) are related. They both deal with data requests, data quality, data lineage, data systems, information sharing and...
April 28, 2021
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Jim Walery
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We have a great deal of resources related to a variety of topics in data governance (or what we call data intelligence). Topics include: getting started with data governance, trust in data, ...
February 12, 2021
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Jim Walery
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Your data governance and data intelligence activities should be as self-service as possible, just like self-service analytics and self-service IT support. Users at an organization should be able to...
November 04, 2020
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Jim Walery
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Reporting and Analytics is very related to data governance and data intelligence. If you do not have trust in your data then you will not have trust in your reports and your analytic efforts. The...
June 12, 2019
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Jim Walery
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While some organizations have been successful with a wide range of reporting tools, many others struggle with the same tools. We feel it is because organizational reporting or analytics problems are...
February 14, 2019
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Aaron Walker
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In a previous post we shared some thoughts about shadow systems, and how they are symptomatic of poor data governance (data intelligence) practices as much as, if not more than, users seeking to...
October 24, 2018
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Aaron Walker
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Of our clients who have embarked on an analytics program, many of them have seen the same issues emerge that came up when they introduced Business Intelligence (BI) tools, as well as historically...
February 12, 2018
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Jim Walery
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The American Council of Education (ACE) came out with a brief, titled “The Data-Enabled Executive: Using Analytics for Student Success and Sustainability”, to increase data-informed decision making...
May 05, 2015
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Aaron Walker
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Anyone who's ever attended a Data Cookbook demonstration, or heard us talk about it at a higher education conference, has heard us say this: "Reporting is not a technology problem." While we think...