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I have been playing with Tableau 7 and recently got a license. However to my fortunate luck Tableau just released version 8 with more than 90 new features. Here is the list of some of the new features that Tableau has put into Tableau 8:
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I like many other millions of people around the world watched in awe as NASA landed the Mars Rover Curiosity on Mars back on Aug. 5, 2012. The first two things I noticed that night was that there was one person in the now famous launch room that had a sign in front [...]
As we slowly move towards a more data focused society as well as with companies well entrenched in the usage of data, analytics, and business intelligence we see that analysts that are hyper-focused in their area of expertise and job function are increasingly more capable with the nitty-gritty details. However, you’ll see that the [...]
For those who know me they know I am a bit Data/Information crazy. As I write on my personal blog I am amazed that most of the worlds endeavors, problems and solutions really come down to 1′s and 0′s. In a basic sense I believe we can solve a great majority of problems and challenges [...]
Lately I have been doing a lot more thinking around ‘how’ we are using data and information and much less around how can we get our hands on more data. This change in thinking actually comes from a few things. One being that I think we (as data professionals) have the firehose wide open now [...]
For some this will be a no-brainer and for those I apologize, however for a good majority of you I think this is going to be a good post to remind you that any report you are building whether in Cognos, SAP, MicroStrategy, Microsoft, or what have you, strive to always do [...]
Maybe you are like me and love data and all the “things” it can do under the brainpower of a select group of the data inclined. Maybe rather you are someone who appreciates information and the fact that if you ask a question with the right system you can get an answer back that no [...]
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Here is an excerpt of Dan Woods’ article “EMC Greenplum’s Steven Hillion on What Is a Data Scientist?”
As the mounds of data pile up from every direction, businesses are going to be differentiated increasingly by how they use that data. The essential skill set needed
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An interesting article by Tony Romm at Politico called “GAO: Federal data at cyber risk”
A Data warehouse is a repository of an organization’s electronically stored data. Data warehouses are designed to manage and store the data whereas the Business Intelligence (BI) focuses on the usage of data to facilitate reporting and analysis. The purpose of a data warehouse is to house standardized, structured,
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