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Big data will make analytics easier

Big data will make analytics easier

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Big data will make analytics easier

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- [Ben] Let's talk a little bit here about the myth that big data will actually make your analytics easier. In an ideal world, all of your data flows into your data warehouse, and that data warehouse is your big data platform. This can take a long time, however, and until all of the data sources are mirrored or moved over to your big data platform, analysts are going to have to look in additional locations to find data to get their job done. Now, data analysts are the ones on the front lines, and are generally a resourceful bunch that will find the data they need to answer their users' questions, regardless of where it lives. But adding another system to the mix will, at least in the short term, delay them slightly, because now they're not sure where to get the data from. In my own experience, working in modern analytics platforms, it is common for my clients to need at least a half-dozen data sources just to answer a single question. Most of the modern analytics tools can handle…

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