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We speak to a number of organizations who are in the process of building and deploying data infrastructure and analytical processes. Organizations face a number of challenges that prevent them from meeting their analytical business objectives. The idea of this note is to share our thoughts on one specific challenge – high cost. Specifically: Cost […]
This post is a useful way to think about how to start on a data journey if you’re a young startup that’s just pushed data to the back burner (say until you had ‘enough’ traction) or even if you’re part of a more mature company that’s used to making decisions more on instinct and experience, […]
[Update]: This article is getting a good bit of engagement. If it resonates with you, I’d love it if you could answer a short 2 minute survey on your data journey here. I will add the same survey link at the end of this post as well. Depending on who you ask, you’re going to hear data […]
This is my pet peeve – technical architects are building systems and applications that make data analysis complicated, error-prone, and inefficient. We need enablement of data consumption as a first-class requirement of any system that is built. I explain here how we could architect differently to improve data consumption. Technical systems architects, including myself until […]
A major challenge in going more data-driven in organization has less to do with data itself, and more to do with the ability to manage the dynamics that emerge as decision makers look at data as an input to decision process. I have a particular kind of power shift in mind. I am not referring […]
At Scribble Data we are thinking deeply about why decision makers are not able to get to the data when they need even when relevant data is available in their own databases. The reason this question matters is because we find that decision makers routinely make high risk decisions involving products, marketing, and operations with […]
