Data Storytelling: An Intersection of Art & Science
A few years ago I met Walter Isaacson, former Chairman of CNN, Editor of TIME, and author of Steve Jobs' biography. If you can’t tell from his pedigree, Isaacson is a great storyteller. He also wrote about other famous innovators including Benjamin Franklin, Albert...
Centralize and cut costs: Is it time to rethink an Enterprise Portal?
Organizations today are faced with more decision-making challenges than ever before. This is due to the sheer volume of data, disparate sources, and breadth of information that they must process to operate effectively—not to mention their competitors’ efforts to...
Data Culture Matters (part 1)
Gartner currently covers over 250 analytics vendors in their research. By the time you are done reading this article, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were two new vendors or tools. With the recent explosion of business intelligence and analytics tools on the market,...
Data Culture Matters (part 2)
4. Data Champions and Culture Catalysts If your efforts to create a rich data culture are going to be successful - identifying, recruiting, and partnering with enthusiastic data champions within the organization is an absolute must. C-Suite mission statements and...
Theia Rebrands as Digital Hive to become the ‘Netflix of Analytics and BI’ for Enterprises with Multiple Tools
“Cool Vendor” also announces new machine learning-driven personalization and recommendation capabilities as part of new product vision 29 September 2020 - US-based Theia, which provides an intelligent enterprise portal for organizations running multiple analytics and...
Higher Education Is Hurting – Data Can Help (COVID 2020 )
Those of us preaching the power of data - on LinkedIn, on stage at keynotes, and at yearly budgeting meetings - prescribe data as the solution to all problems. However, we all know the execution of a powerful analytics strategy is often more challenging than...
Gartner Cool Vendors 2020 Announced
Digital Hive has been named a 2020 Gartner Cool Vendor in Analytics and Data Science With the average organization using 3.8 different BI solutions, and the number of different business roles wanting to analyze the data increasing, it’s critical that businesses make...
Increase Customer Retention | Customer Analytics Portal
As companies race to find value in their data and improve the customer experience, many have overlooked an obvious value-add: providing analytics for the customer. Client-facing analytics differentiates companies from the competition, helping increase market share,...
Why Beyond is The Analytics Event of the Year: A Partner’s Perspective
Over 20 years in the analytics space, I have attended many industry conferences as an attendee, speaker and sponsor. Although there have been a lot of great events, and some not so great ones (we can talk about those over a drink), I have never had this level of...
How are Triathlons and Analytics Similar?
Recently, I finished my second Ironman 70.3 triathlon (for the record, that is NOT me in the photo). The triathlon is made up of three segments: swim, bike, and run. While the finishing time is reflected as a single value, there are 5 distinct times that comprise the...
Theia Announces Partnership with ThoughtSpot to Deliver Embedded Insight Hub to Enterprises
Theia Announces Partnership with ThoughtSpot to Deliver Embedded Insight Hub to Enterprises
“Just the facts, ma’am. Just the facts”
Today I had the opportunity to attend Tableau’s “Design tricks for great dashboards” webinar. The speaker was Andy Cotgreave, a visualization expert and Tableau veteran. During the webinar, Andy touched on ‘framing’. As a level set, framing is about the context in...
Predicting the 2019 Masters
April showers brings May flowers … but more importantly, April brings the Masters. My name is Scott, and I’m an analytics nerd, with a golfing habit. Although I enjoy the PGA tour, the Masters has always been special to me. Trevor and I (having both been fortunate...