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When Companies Actually Need AI Teams (And When They Don’t)
Most companies building AI teams in 2025 are making a $500K mistake. They’re hiring data scientists and ML engineers because their competitors are doing it, or because their board asked about “our AI strategy” or because it feels like the thing you’re supposed to do. Unfortunately, the majority of companies building AI teams don’t actually…
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When to Hire Your First Data Engineer
When should you hire your first data engineer? Not when you hit a revenue number, but when specific pain points justify the $275K-400K first-year investment. Here’s the decision framework.
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Getting Started with Tableau Prep
Why Data Cleaning Still Sucks Data cleaning is nobody’s favorite part of analytics. For the typical business user, you’ve got messy spreadsheets, inconsistent formats, duplicate records, and values that make no sense. And if you’re not a SQL expert, you’re usually stuck doing everything manually in Excel. Tableau Prep changes that. It’s a visual data…