The Most Precious Resource
Data Science —
Answering questions with data —
Is presumed to be an art,
Or at least a high-tech craft,
Producing exponential value and driving innovation.
Organizations know
Answering questions with data
Needs to be faster,
Automated.
They design a plan —
A centralized data lake with dashboards!
But it takes too long to build.
It goes over budget.
Centralized data doesn’t scale —
And dashboards aren’t specific enough to be useful.
To this day,
Eighty percent of questions are answered the slow way.
It’s a human-scale process —
Emails, meetings, queries, modeling & analysis —
Waiting, waiting for weeks
For the bottleneck —
Artisan data specialists handcrafting answers.
Organizations need
Precise answers to all types of questions —
“Good” questions and “Bad” questions —
Quickly.
New questions emerge,
Repeatedly.
New questions emerge,
Immediately with answers from prior questions.
New data and questions emerge —
Old software can’t answer.
Time,
Not data,
Is the most precious resource.
