CHAPTER 2The Path to Analytics: Setting Up a Data and Analytics Team

Creating analytics, especially in a large organization, can be a monumental effort, and a business needs to be prepared to invest time and resources, which will all repay the company manifold by enabling data‐driven decisions. The people who will make this shift toward data‐driven decision making are your Data and Analytics team, sometimes referred to as Data Analytics team or even simply as Data team (although this latest version tends to confuse people, as it may seem related to database administration). This book will refer to the Data and Analytics team as the DA team.

Although the focus of this book is architectural patterns and designs that will help you turn your ...

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