In the modern business environment everyone wants to be data-driven. You can hear the envy in a conference room when a good graph hits the audience right in their data-loving brains. Data is good. Data rules all. What you see less are the glaring imperfections in most data. The show must go on - fine-grained analysis of the data used for strategic decisions holds up things up. Deep dives into data require ability to get that data, interpret that data, and understand that data. This creates a power imbalance where the data-creator is much better positioned to tell the story they want to tell; the data-consumer is hard-pressed to disagree with that story in real-time. Alas, decisions happen in conference rooms, data analysis happens at a desk.
Data: Use, With Caution
Data: Use, With Caution
Data: Use, With Caution
In the modern business environment everyone wants to be data-driven. You can hear the envy in a conference room when a good graph hits the audience right in their data-loving brains. Data is good. Data rules all. What you see less are the glaring imperfections in most data. The show must go on - fine-grained analysis of the data used for strategic decisions holds up things up. Deep dives into data require ability to get that data, interpret that data, and understand that data. This creates a power imbalance where the data-creator is much better positioned to tell the story they want to tell; the data-consumer is hard-pressed to disagree with that story in real-time. Alas, decisions happen in conference rooms, data analysis happens at a desk.