Here MBAs should be at an advantage, as a good set of courses in business analytics should expose them to multiple tools for pulling good information out of a mess of data.
Many investors are making billions of decisions for many different reasons, which means it's often impossible to tease out some explanatory narrative from the mess of data (though reporters certainly try).
EBay's mess of data is both a gift and a complication.
"The algorithms take a mess of data that's meaningless to the human eye and turn it into something you can just understand as a marketing executive".
It's just a total mess, this data, and they've collected so much.
That is how he came to Kleiner a few years ago, when he was brought in to fix the data mess at half a dozen startups.
As the agencies independently create tags for their documents, they could make a bigger data mess.
The retailer faces a whopping bill for cleaning up the mess the massive data leak has caused.
"When I hire someone new, I give them a little test project on a backup server so they can't mess up any data," said Alex Auseklis, vice president for finance at Sundia in Oakland, Calif., which makes True Fruit cups and uses oDesk freelancers for virtually all of its computer programming.
You don't want to mess with your data.
