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Data managers should emulate good librarians

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By Ted Cuzzillo on June 14, 2011 12:02 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Haul away the hardware, peel off the software, rinse off the mystique and you see what the people who manage data really are: They're librarians. That's the role IT workers should model themselves on. I'm not talking about technology.... Read More..
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New data analysts and teenage love

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By Ted Cuzzillo on February 18, 2011 3:34 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Search all the business literature you can and you'll never find data analysis compared to romantic love. But, hey, why not? Love's trajectories might hint at what the business world's newly enabled generation of data analysts can expect. These... Read More..
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Answering the real questions in data analysis

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By Ted Cuzzillo on January 4, 2011 10:37 PM 1 Vote 0 Votes
A guy walks into your cube and asks you to whip up an econometric model. You're a statistician, after all, and you've got a Ph.D. in something or other. You do this for lunch, he figures. He "over-thought," says... Read More..
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How to analyze unfamiliar data: circle, dive, and riff

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By Ted Cuzzillo on November 30, 2010 9:18 PM 1 Vote 0 Votes
When you come face to face with unfamiliar data, how do you proceed? How do you avoid sending you and your shiny "speed of thought" tool slamming into a dead end? Dan Murray's got a routine — and he's... Read More..
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Tableau rising

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By Ted Cuzzillo on September 20, 2010 12:05 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes
As Stephen Few delivered his keynote address at the recent Tableau customer conference in Seattle, he suddenly broke his rhythm to look at someone in the audience. "Is that Howard Dresner?" he asked, surprised. It was. Howard is the... Read More..
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Minding data's pedigree

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By Ted Cuzzillo on July 23, 2010 12:24 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Does it seem to you like data analysis is busting out all over the place? It might become another fun game like chess or Chutes and Ladders — so this might be good time to recall an old admonition:... Read More..
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Tableau launches the best game in town

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By Ted Cuzzillo on February 22, 2010 4:27 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
I'm sorry to tell you serious types out there, but visual analysis is often a game — in fact, one of the best games in town with Tableau Software's visual analysis tool. Now Tableau Public is going to bring... Read More..
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Be a strategist, not a "geek"

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By Ted Cuzzillo on December 22, 2009 4:30 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Dear Ted: My title is "strategist analyst," but I've become just "the data geek." As soon as I get into the fine points of my data, they roll their eyes. In meetings, they make little jokes to each other,... Read More..
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No wizard, just you and the data

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By Ted Cuzzillo on November 3, 2009 9:15 PM 1 Vote 0 Votes
What's the hardest part of training a new data analyst? Resetting the trainee's mindset. "They start out with the idea that there's a right answer," says Joe Mako. Joe's leaving his job — where about one year ago he... Read More..
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Spamalytics finds that spammers are vulnerable

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By Ted Cuzzillo on September 24, 2009 3:28 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
With all that email that piles in for vi*gra and unlucky Nigerian princes, we assume that someone, somewhere, makes tons of money on it all. But some stealthy University of California researchers at Berkeley and San Diego concluded that... Read More..
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