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Conceiving Valuable Data Driven Insights

Posted by James Burr on Mar 13, 2018


How valuable is an insight if you don’t know what’s driving it?

The investment in big data made in recent years by companies has been significant. Many are now looking to capitalize on the insights to be discovered in their expansive data lakes. Developing an analytic solution is a difficult and laborious process. More than a few projects have been abandoned long before any conclusive benefit is realized. Some efforts end due to constraints on time and money, others as a result of bad design or poor end user adoption. That last point is significant. You’re going to spend considerable resources to empower your decision makers. If you build it, and they don’t come, then what?



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Topics: Business Intelligence, Big Data, Semantic Layer, Analytics, BI on Big Data, Data Lake, data driven

What is a “Semantic Layer” and Why Would You Want One?

Posted by Matthew Baird on Jan 15, 2018

I am a software engineer and I like abstractions. I like abstractions because done correctly an abstraction will factor complexity down to a level where I don’t have to spend any brain cycles thinking about it. Abstraction lets me work with a well thought out interface designed to let me accomplish more without having to always consider the system at a molecular level.

It turns out business people also like abstraction. This shouldn’t be surprising as businesses model complex real world concepts where the details matter. From calculation to contextual meaning, abstraction helps with correctness and understanding.

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Topics: Semantic Layer

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