Organizations today operate in increasingly complex data environments. Systems multiply, spreadsheets proliferate, and teams create their own...
Stranger Data: Navigating the “Upside Down” of Analytics
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Data Ponds vs. Data Lakes: A Practical Overview
Learn the key distinctions, pitfalls, and best practices for building trusted analytics environments. At Dimensional Insight, we’ve long subscribed...
How Data Is Used in Waste Management
The saying “one person’s trash is another person’s treasure” refers to those who find value in what other people may not. When it comes to waste...
The Importance of Cultivating Resilience
The world is changing quickly around us, and it can be hard not only to keep up, but also to keep one’s head up amidst all this change. Burnout is...
Key Takeaways from DIUC25
On September 17th, Dimensional Insight customers, partners, and colleagues came together for DIUC25, our annual users conference. This year’s theme...
Data, Love, and Reputation: Analytics Lessons from Taylor & Travis
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement has captivated both the pop-culture world and the sports universe. It’s the rare moment when the NFL and...
DIUC25: Connect for What’s Next
Every September, our community comes together to share what’s working, compare notes on what’s changing, and get practical about what’s next. This...
5 Practical Steps to Boost Data Literacy
Organizations have never had more data at their fingertips—yet much of it never makes the leap from charts to choices. In Gartner’s 2024 Chief Data...
Using Data in Corporate Sustainability Initiatives
It happens every Earth Day: companies recognize the holiday and highlight an environmental initiative that they may or may not follow through on....
Does Data Improve Creativity?
Data and creativity often appear to be at odds with each other. But are they actually complementary? On the one hand, intuition, originality, and...
7 Steps to Successful Analytics
One of the hardest parts of instituting a data-driven culture is the initial transition period following implementation. How can organizations put...
Top 5 Blog Posts of 2024
As it does every year, the Dimensional Insight blog provided a blend of technology and analytics news over the past 12 months. The topics ranged...
5 Trends that Will Impact Your Business in 2025
The end of the year is filled with reflections, both personal and in business. The new year presents an opportunity to take stock of what went well...
Putting the AI in Retail This Holiday Shopping Season
It’s shaping up to be a very AI holiday season. Retailers are using artificial intelligence to try to improve the shopping experience, and...
Short-Term Rental Data: Industry Insights
The short-term housing rental market can be a divisive topic. On the one hand are the people who say companies like Airbnb and VRBO negatively...
How Gathering Compliance Data Can Help Organizations
When you hear about corruption within a corporation, that’s the end result of a long line of things that went wrong. Organizations are supposed to...
Brain-Computer Interface Technology and the Future of Data
Did you know that the origins of Bluetooth date back more than a thousand years? Not the technology, to be clear…but the nomenclature. The name for...
How Data Helps Curb Bacteria Outbreaks
An outbreak of a foodborne illness can be scary because often when the outbreak comes to the public’s attention, there have already been many cases...
Paris Olympics 2024: How Data and Analytics Plays a Role
It’s that time again, when split seconds can mean the difference between athletic notoriety and athletic obscurity. The Paris Olympics are underway,...
How Analytics Can Help Your Wholesale Nursery Grow
Plants aren’t the only things that are plentiful when it comes to wholesale nurseries. The industry also generates an incredible amount of data....