How to Make Sense of Data
If your projects are dealing with content-based websites, two things:
- you’re in a good industry because most people these days get their information from the Web,
- but you have to invest in your database and data management.
Data management or making sense of all the data you have, and build a database for that is not easy. You have to deal with systems, software, memory, space, and bugs!
But today, I’m sharing with you a useful take on making sense of data from Sun Microsystems.
Some snippets:
- You have massive amounts of data. To interpret it, you need dedicated solutions to find the regularities and irregularities in customer behavior to correlate trends.
- Good data and metrics allow you to be more operationally efficient. The primary goal of business intelligence is to optimize resources and investments so that you can adjust your offerings, as close to real time, in reaction to market demands
- Data warehouses will often start small, but the key is to build them so that they can scale and accommodate mixed loads.