Telling business users to run R functions is the wrong BI approach
Shant Hovsepian · 10 Commandments for BI in Big Data, Shant Hovsepian, Arcadia Data (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark) · Dec 17, 2015 · at 17:25
Shant Hovsepian, CTO of Arcadia Data, shares design principles for building big data business intelligence tools at Data Driven NYC.
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“And, you know, you can run this R function isn't the right answer. The answer is what matters for business users, correlation, forecasting, these things, making them very easy to use.”
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