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Embracing the Improbable

When it comes to data and analytics, sometimes what isn't there is just as helpful as what is.

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Scott Monty
Feb 07, 2019
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“The Three Students” by Frederic Dorr Steele for Collier’s, 1904
 

Sherlock Holmes knew a thing or two about analytics.

Sure, he was a master of logic and inductive reasoning. But he had a way of preparing his mind to take in facts, sort them out, and determine what happened.

And so it is that we need to prepare our eyes, ears, and minds — that is, our monitoring tools and our analysis — to understand the true impact of our business efforts.

In Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore, Buttercup is a dockside vendor who boards the ship to sell wares to sailors. She carries with her a long-held secret, and offers this prophesy by way of song:

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