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At Zynga, Analytics is About Impact

Anyone can play Zynga’s FarmVille and other games, but very few get…

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Running through a data analyst’s mind late at night

 From an email to me this week. Quoted with permission.

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What’s that tool? It’s a MacGuffin, sir. Writing a novel about BI.

 When, when will someone write a novel about business intelligence? I can…

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New analysts and teenage love

Search all the business literature you can and you’ll never find data…

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Impress your colleagues with year-end predictions

Why should the smart people have all the fun with year-end predictions?…

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Answering the real questions in data analysis

A guy walks into your cube and asks you to whip up…

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Put a mobile device on your dashboard

What if you could snap an iPad into your car’s dashboard to…

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Let your gray hair light your way through unfamiliar data

How do you approach unfamiliar data? An investment banker I talked to…

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How to analyze unfamiliar data: circle, dive, and riff

When you come face to face with unfamiliar data, how do you…

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The basic skill they don’t teach in BI boot camp

One of the saddest phenomena in BI projects is also a classic:…

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