{"id":12445,"date":"2014-12-05T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=6922"},"modified":"2014-12-05T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T10:10:00","slug":"combatting-data-puddles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/combatting-data-puddles.html","title":{"rendered":"Combatting Data Puddles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/we-call-them-our-data-puddles.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6923 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/we-call-them-our-data-puddles-cartoon-small.jpg?resize=608%2C532&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"we call them our data puddles cartoon\" width=\"608\" height=\"532\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the dawn of analytics organizations have struggled to provide\u00a0fast, flexible analytics for business users while also ensuring that there&#8217;s a common view of data across the organization.<\/p>\n<p>While newer approaches such as <a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/from-data-lakes-to-data-swamps.html\" target=\"_blank\">data lakes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/data-democracy-vs-data-anarchy.html\" target=\"_blank\">data discovery<\/a> have made things easier, there&#8217;s no silver bullet that fixes the business problem of actually using data across different silos effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever your approach, don&#8217;t fall into the trap of accepting data puddles &#8212; here are some tips on <a href=\"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/5-top-tips-for-agile-analytics-organizations.html\" target=\"_blank\">how to lead initiatives to combat the problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the dawn of analytics organizations have struggled to provide fast, flexible analytics for business users while also ensuring that there&#8217;s a common view of data across the organization. Here are some tips&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[27,100,160,172,173,337,341,355,538],"class_list":["post-12445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cartoons","tag-bigdata","tag-analytics","tag-bi","tag-bicc","tag-big-data","tag-data-lakes","tag-data-puddle","tag-datalake","tag-governed-data-discovery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/we-call-them-our-data-puddles-cartoon-small-2.jpg?fit=608%2C532&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-3eJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}