Within the last year, I was introduced to a new part of enterprise data analytics, Data Observability. It has always been a challenge (and expectation) that you know exactly how…
Data Observability: Monte Carlo : Use Cases
So, the POC is in full swing and I have to say, even without the use cases we are pretty sold on the platform. We came in with a problem…
Data Observability: Monte Carlo > First Observability Functionality
The setup was super quick and easy. Once that was done, I decided to give it some time before I did an in-depth analysis of the tool. The product gives…
Data Observability: Monte Carlo > Initial Implementation
As we walk through the POC with Monte Carlo, I am going through the implementation. Here are my notes. It was truly very easy to set up and Im usually…
Data Observability: POC, Implementation and Process with Monte Carlo
A modern data stack has a number of components that you can’t live without. Until about a month ago, I’m really embarrassed to say that I never considered or even…
What is business intelligence? Ambiguous interpretations.
So many of our business goals are driven by data. In the digital world, we have a seemingly unending supply of people, tools and services dedicated to “business intelligence”. So,…
The Commoditization of the Digital Services Industry
The general thought for a digital services company is to attempt to set themselves apart from their competitors using some niche or other differentiator. As technology evolves, the standard services…
Web Techniques: Setting up your working environment
Before you develop a website, you have to setup an environment. These are instructions for setting up a local environment to build websites. If you set this up, you will…
The Anatomy of Good Visualization
What makes for a good visualization? There are a number of components that are necessary for a visualization to be valuable. Just having a line (series item) represent some segment…
Stopwords in multiple languages
If you build data visualizations you have run into the issues of useless words destroying the value of your display. You should find a way to implement these “stopwords” into…