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January 4, 2007
1. Perspectives
- BI Is for Everyone: Pass It On
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1. Perspectives
BI Is for Everyone: Pass It On
by Brian Moran, brian@solidqualitylearning.com
A few weeks ago, in “Swivel Puts a New Twist on BI for the Masses”, I wrote about Swivel (http://www.swivel.com), a novel site devoted to amateur data analysis. I pondered whether this new site would become the “next big thing” and finally bring BI to the masses or quickly fade away into nothingness. I’m still not sure if Swivel will be a bang or a bust, but an aside at the end of a reader reply to my first Swivel editorial fascinated me:
“Thanks for the heads-up! My brother's a high-school AP stats teacher, so I'm passing it on to him too.”
That’s exactly what I’m talking about when I suggested that Swivel, or something like it, might actually bring BI to the masses. People who aren’t functional experts—such as high school statistics students—could “do BI.” Will these unwashed masses, as I suggested in my editorial a few weeks ago, learn to publish, analyze, and understand complex data sets? And will we see a significant increase in the amount of data analysis that happens worldwide?
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