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kyllo on June 10, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Salesforce is buying Tableau for $15.7B

To put a finer point on it, they'll pay a lot of money for tools that require less-skilled labor to operate. They will gladly spend a lot of money on Tableau to avoid paying the salary premium to have "those who program" build them an analytics system. It costs much less to hire business analysts who don't program (aside from SQL).

hinkley on June 10, 2019 [–]

Now if they just taught business analysts how statistics work.

If I had a dollar for every time someone showed me a wrongheaded graph they were using to make business decisions, I could retire.

kyllo on June 10, 2019 | [–]

There are varying degrees of skill and competence in business analytics just like there are in software development.

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