March 9, 2020
A commonly quoted adage in technology consulting is that “the last 20% of the work takes 80% of the time”. A report that will be used […]
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February 28, 2020
The latest factor to consider is IR35, which might sound like a secret branch of the security services, but is in fact a piece of HMRC legislation that will affect many thousands of companies and 230,000 freelance contractors. ..
February 12, 2020
You’re about to start a big data project. Fantastic! We’re big believers in the fact that every business can gain a real competitive advantage through analysing their data. […]
February 12, 2020
Despite the talk of a data driven revolution, the reality for many companies often lags someway behind the ideal of a business built on reliable detailed […]
January 17, 2020
David & Tom from Snap Analytics present the Modern Data Warehouse with Snowflake and Fivetran on 15th January 2020
January 17, 2020
Picture this: you’ve decided to embark on an analytics project and find yourself in the offices of an experienced analytics team. To the untrained eye it might look like a bunch of people in comic book t-shirts staring into seemingly infinite streams of mysterious numbers, symbols and letters....
January 17, 2020
In 2013 Dan Ariely, professor of behavioural economics at Duke University, got the analytics world all aquiver when he stated: “Big data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.”...
December 11, 2019
Once upon a time when the world was young, people got around by remembering landmarks, looking at the stars and making the occasional lucky guess...
May 21, 2018
Having spent over a decade working on enterprise data warehousing solutions, I've seen the same stories repeat themselves over and over.