Data has value. There is no doubt about that. Opinions differ on what that value is and how to quantify it. Is it an accounting or economic exercise? Is it even possible to have a ‘generally accepted’ formula for data valuation? I think leveraging the economic value of data (by…
Data is a strategic asset and should be treated as such. Companies should be maximising its economic value and diligently managing investment into data. These were some of the main messages of my recent talk and an article. The question I got from many people is how to evaluate the…
This article is a translation of my presentation given at Primetime for Big Data 2021 conference.
Intuitively, we all understand that data has value. It’s why companies are investing heavily into data and why so many people have chosen data as their professional career path.
Thoughtspot’s Beyond 2021 conference took place this week. We’ve been hearing about dashboards being dead for a while, so I was curious what the life after dashboards looks like (according to Thoughtspot). Their answer? Live analytics — people interacting with data and insights in a live manner using an analytics…
I’ve been in Prague for a conference this week. It was great to see how the local data community is growing and flourishing. There were many great presentations and a panel discussion at the end. The first question was, ‘if data were a person, how old this person is?’ Having…
Querying data is getting cheaper and faster. We can all discuss if Databricks’ data warehousing performance record is just a marketing stunt, and what are the consequences of a data lake technology leading data warehousing benchmark. …
Keeping Up With Data has turned one last week and with that I decided to shift away from sequence labelled by week numbers. Apart from this cosmetic change, Bill Schmarzo ran a LinkedIn Poll asking for a better term than ‘data monetisation’ (which often evokes selling the data). After collecting…
The first Keeping Up With Data was published on October 23, 2020. Which means that today marks a year of reading hundreds of data articles, writing 53 weekly reading lists, and 13 opinion pieces. …
Data can be used to describe the world around us. Typically, the part of the world that is relevant to a problem at hand. Such as, we want to understand who a person applying for a loan is to asses their probability to default. Or what songs a person prefers…
What data articles do people find the most useful? When I asked this question in a LinkedIn poll I learned that my network has a very strong preference towards case studies from businesses. Only 14% respondents share my passion for data thought leadership articles. …
Data scientist with corporate, consulting and start-up experience | avid cyclist | amateur pianist | Interim CDO at DataDiligence.com
