Dave Mariani

November 10, 2022

Effective data storytelling is integral to ensuring your organization leverages data insights. But how can you tell a meaningful data story that influences action? An analytics-driven culture doesn’t crop up overnight — it’s built through effective data storytelling.  Implementing a…

November 1, 2022

We recently hosted a virtual Semantic Layer Summit with our friends at Snowplow, Databricks, DAS42, and InterSystems. During the event, we gathered data leaders and top industry technologists to discuss the importance and impact of using a semantic layer for…

October 25, 2022

I recently spoke with a roundtable of data and culture industry experts about how to foster an analytics-driven culture to drive more actionable, valuable insights. We discussed how organizations can become data leaders, the importance of change management, and why…

October 13, 2022

I recently held a panel discussion with leaders in data management to discuss ways to improve data accessibility across any organization. Our discussion centered around the idea that it’s time to move beyond descriptive and diagnostic insights — reviewing what…

October 4, 2022

More than 10 years after the explosion of big data analytics technologies, data scientists still spend nearly half their time on data preparation. Despite all their hard work preparing data for use, 86% of the data used to create insights…

September 8, 2022

In my talk with AI Evangelist, Ben Taylor, we discussed how to use a Semantic Layer and augmented intelligence (AI) to bridge the gap between AI and business intelligence (BI) teams to drive business impact.  DataRobot is a powerful enterprise…

August 11, 2022

I recently hosted a live customer webinar with a Forbes Top 50 FinTech company that uses AtScale to support their data science initiatives. Trumid’s senior data engineer Colin Reid joined me to share insights into the problems his team is…

June 30, 2022

There are six key areas for effectively consuming data for business insights: storing the data, having access to the data, modeling the data, analyzing it, consuming it, and generating insights from it. For organizations looking to advance in each of…

June 28, 2022

I hosted another round of interviews last week with data leaders about generating actionable insights and improving data analytics. We discussed the importance of building a data-driven culture, measuring the success of data analytics initiatives, and how to overcome the…

June 23, 2022

Despite having a billion users, Excel is not always thought of as a business intelligence (BI) tool. Yet Excel remains by far the predominant BI consumption platform in enterprise data because its formulas and functions make it a powerful tool…

June 16, 2022

I recently joined a roundtable discussion at the Metrics Store Summit with three business intelligence (BI) entrepreneurs (and good friends). We dived into our approaches in this space, the architecture of our products, the technical aspects to how different data…

June 9, 2022

This is the last post in this blog series, The Semantics of the Semantic Layer, where I discuss the seven core capabilities of a semantic layer. In this blog, I will dive deeper into how a semantic layer should integrate…