Six surprises on my way from data to analysis

Originally published on November 29, 2011 in BI This Week, a TDWI publication.

What do you do when you have a bunch of data on your hands and your skills fail to make sense of it? That's where I was the other day.

As much as I've written about data analysts, I'm not one myself. When, in late September, I finally closed my survey of analysts, I needed a pr…