Frank Schiepers

Independent Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Professional | PMP | CSM

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Frank's Observations on Data - this week's #FOOD of the Week

Data literacy allows you to gain insights from your data. It's all about asking and answering questions from your data, with a critical mindset. Being data literate makes you understand number…https://t.co/Dto1Y0enXT

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Frank's Observations on Data - this week's #FOOD of the Week

Data security secures your data and protects it from unauthorized users, data breaches, unwanted actions and cyber attacks.

The most basal data security measure to set in place is a good backu…https://t.co/vZdZfkXMd1

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Frank's Observations on Data - this week's #FOOD of the Week

Some special dish this week as Gartner published its Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms.

The duel between Tableau and Microsoft continues. Where Microsoft offers…https://t.co/oFpWHBOGNr

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Frank's Observations on Data - this week's #FOOD of the Week

A Data Mart is a relatively small repository of data facilitating a specific use-case. Data marts are purpose built, contain pre-processed, aggregated data and are generally used for reporting…https://t.co/6nh9F3m9Sm

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Frank's Observations on Data - this week's #FOOD of the Week

Self-service analytics and governance go hand in hand. Strong governance gives all involved parties a framework to act within. Different type of users have different type of information needs.…https://t.co/ASSNVQAryT

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Frank's Observations on Data - this week's #FOOD of the Week

A modern Data Architecture is customer-driven. It starts with business users and their needs, rather than taking in data dumps from your corporate systems. Customers can be both internal and ex…https://t.co/YuqNkYGaAd

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Frank's Observations on Data - this week's #FOOD of the Week

Curating data typically results in lots of consumable data sets. Business user consumption of these data sets has to be easy. Querying data and deriving insights without having to know how to c…https://t.co/fEzlcKt3Hd

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Frank's Observations on Data - this week's #FOOD of the Week

After time with family, friends, bottles and plates it's time to catch up again with some new food :-)

All the best in 2020!

Data Standardization is an important aspect of an organization's d…https://t.co/ETtoW1xSXY

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Frank's Observations on Data - this week's #FOOD of the Week

I see organizations often struggling with finding the right balance between project lifecycle and product lifecycle when it comes down to engineering Data solutions. They mostly end up with lot…https://t.co/4X6rIk7m2o

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Frank's Observations on Data - this week's #FOOD of the Week

When developing a data ecosystem with Consumable Datasets, it's perfectly normal and acceptable to end up with redundant data points. As long as things are consistent, that's fine. Always remem…https://t.co/pxeAQEHDgs

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Frank's Observations on Data - this week's #FOOD of the Week

Data Lake, Data Reservoir, Data Hub, Data Store, Data Cube? Who cares. Spending time on those semantic discussions on how to name your Data Thing doesn't add any value at all.

Pick a name and…https://t.co/wbYSYqrctB

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Frank's Observations on Data - this week's #FOOD of the Week

Data Virtualization promises to integrate data from multiple data sources without copying or moving the data, i.e. in a virtual layer that combines different applications, locations and underly…https://t.co/nog4JkSFDZ

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Frank's Observations on Data - this week's #FOOD of the Week

Sometimes your users are in need to add valuable data points which aren't readily available in the organization's systems of record. Think of 3rd party benchmark data sets, custom reporting hie…https://t.co/uvZN3hwPux

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Frank's Observations on Data - this week's #FOOD of the Week

'To measure is to know', dixit Lord Kelvin in the 19th century.

'Interesting', our great manager said. She bought a tool offered by this vendor who promised her the world and started measuring…https://t.co/KgTQrOMvvj

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Frank's Observations on Data - this week's #FOOD of the Week

'To measure is to know', dixit Lord Kelvin in the 19th century.

'Interesting', our great manager said. She bought a tool offered by this vendor who promised her the world and started measuring…https://t.co/cNTlQkuSvb

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Frank's Observations on Data - this week's #FOOD of the Week

In a Data Democracy average end users are empowered to access and understand data at all times to drive their decision making. Readily available consumable datasets that reflect your business a…https://t.co/pqXBeUOPec

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Frank's Observations on Data - this week's #FOOD of the Week

Recipe for a successful Data Strategy: develop what your business needs, not what it requests.

Traditionally projects are funded after execution of an assessment based on business requirements…https://t.co/4OHIMoRqfL

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Frank's Observations on Data - this week's #FOOD of the Week

Why bother to still model your data for analytics purposes in times of relatively cheap storage, bandwidth and processing capacity?

First of all, your data should reflect your business, so the…https://t.co/UP1UZ5KRxF

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Frank's Observations on Data - this week's #FOOD of the Week

A transparent and straightforward Data Classification scheme is the first step to assess possible threats to your business when working with different types of data. It helps an organization ef…https://t.co/qoWSJc1h9z

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