Both business glossaries and data dictionaries sound like something you’d find sitting on the reference shelf of a library. The terms are basically interchangeable, right? Wrong! While they share some similarities, both the purpose and the content of these two documents differ substantially, and understanding those differences is the key to ensuring that business owners […]
Best Practices for a Business Glossary
What’s a business glossary and why do businesses need one? This post is going to lay it all out and provide the necessary information to see how a business glossary can help a business succeed. It will also provide some tips and tricks to make sure that businesses are getting the most they can out […]
See It to Believe It: Why Humans Need Data Visualization
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” This cliche has its roots in psychology. It turns out that the human brain has a very difficult time understanding data without visualizations. Even very simple tasks (such as remembering the three words “dog, bike, and street”) are easier when they’re accompanied with visual representations instead of just […]
Understanding and Building Data Literacy Skills
Literacy is, broadly speaking, the ability to understand others’ ideas and communicate one’s own. When considering specific types of literacy, that same core principle remains. In this way, data literacy can be defined as the ability to understand information presented through data and to meaningfully communicate ideas using that information. In other words, a data […]
Two Challenges Blocking AI From Its Full Potential
Artificial intelligence has long been promising to disrupt industries, revolutionize economies, and (generally speaking) transform the world as we know it. While many people have dismissed these claims as the work of speculative science fiction, advancing technologies bring them closer and closer to reality every day. The promises of AI are real, and smaller versions […]
In a Data World “Prep Cooks” Wanted: How Preparing Data is Crucial for Effective Use
Cooking shows are very popular, and many of them show creative, talented chefs whipping up delicious and innovative dishes with confidence and skill. What fewer of the shows explore is the prep work that is done in advance to allow those talented chefs to move through their tasks with ease and without distracting barriers to […]
