Why is data like ordering a pizza? To start with, no one wants to wait a long time for their pizza or for their data. No one can agree exactly what they want. Is is ham and pineapple or month-over-month growth for the last two years. Traditional is long gone…

So, you want to create or grow a data culture within your organisation. Why? Data culture is relatively vague industry term. Everyone is told they need it. Everyone wants to have it. Not many know how to get it. Data culture isn’t something that a Chief Data Officer can make…

What is embedded analytics? It’s a term that has been around for a few years, but fairly recently emerged as an “added feature” in some of the software vendors around. You could argue that players like Microstrategy have been always had this as part of their offering. I’ve worked on…

Last week lots of employees from JUST EAT got the opportunity to meet up from across the world. Our #data team lead by Alberto Rey Villaverde , Chloë Stubbins and Matthew Cresswell made the decision to fly the majority of the data team in from across the globe. We had…

Data is such a common term in modern business these days. I’ve been very fortunate to have been able to be part of the industry and seen the changes day to day, year to year. From the early days of a few people in IT who had access to a…

So here we are, the final part of this blog series about launching a self service analytics programme. Hopefully you are collecting information from lots of different sources in order to build out a successful project. This final blog post looks into the more hidden things you should consider. What…

My first post on launching an self service analytics programme was all about why I decided to do it. This post will go into the detail about what my particular programme covers and why. So, after deciding on what your programme aims to achieve, who your target audience is and…

Part of my vision is to create a data ecosystem which enables people within an organisation to access, consume and understand data. While amazing looking dashboards and a fast, clean and governed database will all play huge roles in achieving this data driven objective, enabling access is an often overlooked…

Back in February I was asked to share my Tableau story at their Tableau Cinema Tour series in London. My Tableau story is a long one — how do I pick one thing to talk about with other customers? Most of my previous talks have been about Tableau Server. It’s…