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Remove Your Rose Tinted Glasses: Data Visualizations Designed to Mislead

Data Pine

1) Misleading Data Visualization Examples. 2) How to Avoid Misleading Visuals. 3) The Impact Of Bad Data Visualizations. But while that may be the case, people are duped by data visualizations every day. Bad data visualizations come in many forms, with some more obvious than others.

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Why & How to Upskill your Data Analytics skills

Insight Software

Providing valuable insights from data that moves the business forward in achieving its strategic objectives is one of the most valuable skills any FP&A or Operational Planning (OP) professional can possess. Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the web like deer on a freeway.

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A Guide To Starting A Career In Business Intelligence & The BI Skills You Need

Data Pine

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, demand for qualified business intelligence analysts and managers is expected to soar to 14% by 2026, with the overall need for data professionals to climb to 28% by the same year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also states that in 2015, the annual median salary for BI analysts was $81,320.

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Introduction To The Basic Business Intelligence Concepts

Data Pine

“Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.” – Geoffrey Moore, management consultant, and author. In a world dominated by data, it’s more important than ever for businesses to understand how to extract every drop of value from the raft of digital insights available at their fingertips.

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Top 10 Management Reporting Best Practices To Create Effective Reports

Data Pine

They give you a bird’s eye view of your business operations, but without actionable insights or granular data that are useful for making strategic choices. In essence, data reporting is a specific form of business intelligence that has been around for a while. 7) Strike a balance with your data visualizations.

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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

BizAcuity

2007: Amazon launches SimpleDB, a non-relational (NoSQL) database that allows businesses to cheaply process vast amounts of data with minimal effort. An efficient big data management and storage solution that AWS quickly took advantage of. They now have a disruptive data management solution to offer to its client base.

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Going Beyond Executive Dashboards

Domo

We need our business data to tell us where we’re going and how to get there. We’re so invested in making the most out of our data that according to IDC, worldwide business analytics spending will increase by more than 50% between 2015 and 2019. So where exactly is it going?