Posts tagged Michael Hovar
Trifacta Flow Examples: A Little Help to Start Wrangling

Those who have used the Trifacta platform wouldn’t just tell you that it works—they’d also tell you that we’ve actually made data preparation fun. What was once considered a tedious, often dreaded activity has now become quite addictive with the Trifacta platform. Still, getting started with a new technology isn’t easy. Here are a few tips to get you feeling confident and comfortable with the Trifacta data preparation platform.

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Dispatches from the Seventh Circle of Scrum: Episode Ⅱ

If you have an active Scrum practice, make a plan to implement one of these tips. Change doesn’t have to be daunting, nor does it have to be forced in all at once. It never hurts to be agile about Agile. In their book Fixing Your Scrum, Ripley and Miller offer an approach to effectively identifying and applying changes within an organization, by asking the simple question: “What’s within my control that I can change to get our organization 15% closer to where it needs to be?”

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Dispatches from the Seventh Circle of Scrum: Episode Ⅰ

Few ideologies or concepts have been as transformative in the realm of project delivery over the past couple of decades as Scrum. Now celebrating 25 years in existence and deeply embedded at tech startups and tech giants alike, Scrum has practically become a household name ( – though not quite, as evidenced by recurring questions from my wife: “What exactly are you a master of?” and “What’s a… scrum?”).

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Adventures in Data Wrangling

Enter Trifacta Wrangler, an intuitive and intelligent data preparation tool designed to create order from chaos. There’s nothing my spreadsheet-loving self gets more excited about than well-structured data; but before I get too poetic with my Trifacta hero epic, let’s ground our discussion in a case study. Because when it comes to data troubles, I’ve seen things. So how does Trifacta help?

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BI Tomorrowland

…As I stood there, rubbing my bruised noggin and craving Dutch apple pie, I reflected on the changes currently underway in the world of BI. The technology oracles have been saying it for some time now, but never had it been more apparent to me than at IBM Data & AI Forum last October that social forces, business practices, and new technologies are changing the way we think about enterprise data.

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