Notebook as BI tool?
Speeding up BI on top of Big Data in enterprises
Csenger Szabo
who am i
spent some years in multiple fields in IT
then got a passion for big data
enterprise big data projects (Magyar Telekom) and helping big data strategy
at Nextent
education, continous learning
blog: predie.com
The beginning of BI
28th Foot at Quatre Bras, 16 June 1815,
by E. Thompson (1846 – 1933)
„a set of techniques and tools for the acquisition and
transformation of raw data into meaningful and useful information
for business analysis purposes”
Bain & Company: http://www.bain.com/publications/articles/big_data_the_organizational_challenge.aspx
Big Data
6.1
average number of days it takes to get reports built with
traditional BI tools
among best-in-class performance companies
Aberdeen Group: http://tdwi.org/articles/2009/05/20/study-highlights-how-to-lower-bi-costs-complete-projects-ontime-and-onbudget-with-less-staff.aspx
60%
percentage of business and technology decision-makers who report
time concerns with creating/updating dashboards
Forrester: http://go.thoughtspot.com/forrester-white-paper-0315.html
Notebooks
Best friends of data scientists
Multiple data sources & interfaces
All the aspects of a data projects with one tool
Sharing and presentation
Traditional BI tool
Notebook
Interact with data
SQL
programmatically & SQL
Data cleansing
limited
✓
Visualization
easy and great
satisfying
Data quality it needs
prepared data
can eat anything
Statistical analysis
limited
full access to several librarys
Skillset and tools
multiple tool needed for the whole
process
same skillset but less tool (one)
Sharability
easy and can be customized
in its infancy
SAS, Sara Venturina – Predictive Analytics
Conclusions
Time is money - how fast you can make good decisions
More tools – more people needed
Triumph of open-source, web-based apps and cloud
Business is changing – we have to keep up