Adam Grant on lessons from the pandemic, datum versus data, and how abstract numbers can lead to very real human outcomes

In this excerpt from the new book 'Speak Data,' the Wharton professor and best-selling author shares his thoughts on how we ...
Forbes

Three Market-tested Lessons About Data Storytelling

The role of the data analyst has evolved. At one point the data analyst’s job was pretty straightforward: Give the business data. From there, data analysts were told to present the findings in a ...
dbta

The Lessons of Database History

Have we come full circle in database technologies? At this year’s San Jose Strata conference, Doug Turnbull (@softwaredoug) provided a recap of the last 30 to 40 years of database history, and posed ...
Printing Impressions

Lessons About Data

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,” observed Jane Austen in her book, “Pride and Prejudice.” Two centuries later, ...