Food Magazine December 2018 | Page 19

warehouse for all this information to go into so we chose to work with Cloudera . Then we asked ourselves how our employees and our partners would really interrogate and examine the information that we give them . We wanted to ensure that we had modern toolsets out there as well , so we looked at different products and settled on Tableau as our visualization platform and RStudio as our analytical , statistical modeling platform .” Through these cutting-edge technologies , Brown- Forman has sought to democratize data and its analytics so that employees from all departments can utilize this for their own ad hoc analyses every day .
Gaining the data is only the beginning . For this tool to really earn its stripes , Nall points out that you need to gain true insight and analysis of the figures . “ We ’ re always cautious to say that , in a way , the data isn ’ t doing anything ,” he explains . “ It ’ s the insights we ’ re gleaning from the information that are important . Data without analysis is wasted money . We ’ ve transformed how we look at the information ; it ’ s
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