Contributor: Steve Swoyer
Stephen Swoyer is a technology writer with more than 16 years of experience. His writing has focused on business intelligence, data warehousing, and analytics for almost a decade. He’s particularly intrigued by the thorny people and process problems most BI and DW vendors almost never want to acknowledge, let alone talk about.
All articles by Steve Swoyer
Data scientist Claudia Perlich explains why we must use machine learning and predictive technologies ethically, responsibly, and mindfully.
- By Steve Swoyer
- March 8, 2017
Russ Olsen advises technical people not to discount the human element. Without it you'll never pull off a real moonshot.
- By Steve Swoyer
- March 7, 2017
Microsoft's Power BI cloud platform got an analytics refresh to close out the year. In addition, Power BI now supports DirectQuery for both Spark and Azure Analysis Services.
- By Steve Swoyer
- January 17, 2017
According to TDWI survey data, about half of all enterprises expect to replace their data warehouse systems -- in some cases, their analytics tools, too -- over the next three years. What should they replace them with?
- By Steve Swoyer
- January 11, 2017
This year will go down as a strange, even uncanny, kind of year.
- By Steve Swoyer
- December 15, 2016
At the re:Invent conference, Amazon announced a slew of new products, services, and features, including a technology for querying against its S3 storage service and a new AI framework.
- By Steve Swoyer
- December 12, 2016