English version follows Les risques de ne pas investir dans les données  Une des constantes dans la gestion d’une entreprise encourageant l’utilisation des données et des analyses : la plupart des dirigeants avec lesquels je parle ont connu au moins une mauvaise expérience avec les données, parfois biendavantage. Peut-être avaient-ils acheté des données. Mais malgré de […]

“Hey, can you check these guys out for me? I’m thinking of partnering with them and need some more information.”  “You have business data, right? Can you tell me about this guy? He says he runs a small investing company but I’m not sure.”  This is how Diligence started – pretty much everyone knew we were gathering […]

Xiaosong Zhai leads our data gathering practice, preparing curious information for ingestion into our Advanced Business Database. Today, he talks to us about the importance of understanding the data you process - whether you're a pro data analyst, a hobbyist investigator, or even new a user of the Trade Data Connect program through our partnership […]

Open Data is a powerful tool that can be used for business assessment, predictive analytics, marketing, or just exploration of the world around us. In Part One we laid out the case for Open Data and its usefulness in the pursuit of both Public Good and business benefit. Part Two focuses on proper licensing and […]

Ottawa recently slipped below Moscow as the world’s coldest capital city for a day.  But its support of women-owned businesses always warms our hearts.  This week, rel8ed.to researcher Zach Dai dives into business cluster trends with a Tableau Modeling Approach using rel8ed.to’s VizArt student Competition Data Tableau is known by its powerful visualization power, but today […]