While efforts to build a data dictionary are often undertaken out of a zeal for documentation that we would normally applaud, in practice data dictionaries and data catalogs end up
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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are management tools for monitoring and improving business processes. KPIs are helpful in understanding if you’re hitting your business objectives, improving over time, and helping to
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Hi Everyone!
It is hard to believe that Locally Optimistic started a year ago today. In the last year we evolved from a blog (29 posts!) to a thriving slack
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A Culture of Partnership
During my time leading an analytics and data science team, I spent a lot of time thinking about how an ideal analytics team should
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The landscape of the data and analytics world is shifting rapidly. In many companies, the roles and responsibilities of data engineers, analysts, and data scientists are changing. This change has
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As the new year rolls around, many Data leaders are thinking about (or have already created) 2019 road maps for their team and function. Since Data often works cross functionally
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The notion of an A/B test is premised on the fundamentally flawed assumption that there exists one version of some treatment that is better on average for all users. Analytics
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The first data hires at an early stage startup face numerous challenges — an infrastructure built to run the business but not analyze it, an organization hungry for information without
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I often get asked by junior data professionals how they can improve as data scientists. Today I will outline a generic framework for thinking about learning and provide a few
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