Author: Wendy Gilbert
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Little Data is Sexy Too
I regularly attend conferences and meetup groups focused on data and business intelligence (BI) in order to keep up my industry knowledge, network with my peers and just because I enjoy talking about data. These are virtual now with Covid, but over the last few years, I’ve noticed that while the topics are fun and…
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A Bird’s Eye View of Data Migration
Data migration can be incredibly daunting. Finding a home for every field, pixel, and document in a new system is like moving between libraries that have completely different classification systems. Or like helping an elderly relative move out of their decades-long home and downsize into a new apartment. Often it feels like being caught up…
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Bletchley Park: The Birthplace of Artificial Intelligence
We started Datagami because we wanted to highlight positive uses of data. This month I was thrilled to be able to visit Bletchley Park – one of the most impressive and positive uses of data I know of. The town of Bletchley is just about an hour’s train ride north of London and Bletchley Park…
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Data Literacy and Covid-19
This has been a year like no other, the effects of Covid-19 have impacted us all on personal and professional levels. In the first part of the year, I was looking at booking behaviors and worrying about the impacts to travel in Asia. By the end of March, I found myself obsessively checking Covid-19 statistics…
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Tableau join with calculated field
I recently ran into a problem with a join: I had two tables with “customer class” IDs in them, but I needed the description – which was only available for the customer subclass. In a rush, I joined the tables on customer class and filtered the subclass descriptions to one description per customer class. I…
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Trends in Data Management: The Increasing Demand for Product Management
If you had asked me five years ago what direction I wanted to take my career, I am absolutely certain I would not have said product management. Yet here I am, managing a data products team and loving it. Product management wasn’t much of a thing in data five years ago – there were product…
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Trends in Data Management: The Evolution of the Data Producer
I’ve been having discussions lately about data strategies. And, living in London, these conversations often end up in a pub over beer and evolve into philosophical debates on trends in data management, data warehousing, business intelligence, etc. So I thought I’d start a series on the topic and see where it leads. One area that…
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Looking for a…platypus?
Everyone understands the phrase “looking for a unicorn.” Are you that BI engineer with great people skills? “You’re a unicorn!” Are you a data scientist with a talent for visualization? “You’re a unicorn!” But everyone’s really looking for a platypus, that odd combination of duck, beaver, and otter. While looking for a new position last…
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The Workplace of the Future
We often ask children what they want to be when they grow up. I have no idea what my answer was when I was a kid – some people have memories of wanting to be a doctor or fireman but I was in high school before I decided and then I changed my mind 100…
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Burgernomics
A few months ago I interviewed for a job in London. I’ve always wanted to live in Europe and this role seemed made for me. But moving from the U.S. to London is a big step, so when I was offered the position I of course turned to data to help me decide if I…
BI Over Beers 