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Re:Big Data Is Dead by Guthur on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @03:15PM (#34698797)
And the alternative is to use the data as bones, throw it up in the air and let it tell you what to do?
Re:Big Data Is Dead by bronson on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @03:53PM (#34699417)
Absolutely. If you don't like what K-Means is telling you, change a variable and re-run. (that's one great thing about business data: there's no shortage of variables! True, there's usually a shortage of independent variables, but fixing that is difficult and underfunded).
Re:Big Data Is Dead by red-iron-pine on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @04:39PM (#34700152)
And you'd better hope the bones actually say something useful.

I was the infra lead on a data lake project and got take part all the way to breaking down the data and turning into PowerBI reports. The result was "sell more" and to clients who marketing already identified, years ago, as whales.

There were some interesting other insights, esp. w/r/t to niche products that sold around weird dates (Easter, Memorial Day, 4th July -- but not obvious gift days like Valentines or X-Mas), but it led to a lot of "you're doing it wrong!" recriminations and follow up projects.