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The 4 Important Things About Analyzing Data Part 3 & 4: Recognize You Can’t Do It All and Show Your Value

In this blog series highlighting the four important things about analyzing data, so far we've talked about the importance of delivering many obvious results and the need to accurately understand the purpose of the analysis. Throughout the discussions, we've used the word “analysis” to describe t...

The 4 Important Things About Analyzing Data Part 2: Understand the Purpose of the Analysis and Who Needs the Results

Before analyzing data, it is important to first clearly understand for whom and for what purpose you are conducting the analysis. This is essential because analytics assist humans in making decisions. Therefore, conducting the analysis to produce the best results for the decisions to be made is a...

The 4 Important Things about Analyzing Data Part 1: The Importance of Providing Many ‘Obvious’ Results

In the past few years, mass accumulation of data has increased. Meanwhile, the distributed parallel processing of the data has matured. Although the original focus was on the analysis back end (platforms) to support the accumulation of data and the efficiency of the batches, I believe that the imp...

Understanding the Book-Crossing Dataset: Visualizing Status Data

In the previous entry, we went over several “status” data on TD cloud data warehouse. Today, we are focusing on “action” data, or rather, a type of inaction: how can we identify users who are lazy about rating books?......

Understanding the Book-Crossing Dataset: Setup

I'm a data scientist at TD. In a series of blog entries, I want to introduce how to use our platform by interacting with a concrete dataset. I chose the publicly available Book-Crossing Dataset as our base data......