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December 30th, 2013 Stephen McDaniel Chief Data Officer Advisor at Freakalytics, LLC Finding it hard to make time to keep up with the rapidly changing world of data, data warehousing, analytics, data...
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January 26th, 2014 Stephen McDaniel Chief Data Officer Advisor at Freakalytics, LLC Finding it hard to make time to keep up with the rapidly changing world of data, data warehousing, analytics, data...
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January 26th, 2014 Stephen McDaniel Chief Data Officer Advisor at Freakalytics, LLC Finding it hard to make time to keep up with the rapidly changing world of data, data warehousing, analytics, data...
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February 23rd, 2014 Stephen McDaniel Chief Data Officer Advisor at Freakalytics, LLC Finding it hard to make time to keep up with the rapidly changing world of data, data warehousing, analytics, data...
View ArticleAccidental Analysts®: What are they doing with my data?
Eileen McDaniel, Ph.D. and Stephen McDaniel This article was originally published in late 2013 in The Data Warehouse Institute FlashPoint Newsletter Earlier this year, we presented this topic in a talk...
View ArticleDownload data to predict gender using first name (US data)
Do you have data with just first names or even just first initials but no information on the person’s gender/sex? If you would like better insights on your customers, based on whether they are likely...
View ArticlePowerTrip Analytics™ 2014Candid Quadrants™Based on three-year visual...
Detailed cost comparisons across all seven visual analytics offerings at PowerTrip Analytics™ pricing review tables. Read individual product details, highlights and examples: Microstrategy Analytics...
View ArticleBuild a Basic Dashboard in Tableau 8Excerpt from Rapid Graphs with Tableau 8
Appendix #2—Build a Basic Dashboard We’ve taught entire courses on how to design and build dashboards in Tableau over multiple days, so the topic can be quite complex. In this section, you will learn...
View ArticleHonesty, the first principle of good analytics
Meet Dieter Rams – Industrial Designer Dieter Rams is a German industrial designer most closely associated with the minimalist designs of the consumer brand Braun. Dieter was head of design at Braun...
View ArticleGreat vs good analysts, software obsessions and informing executives
Charts and graphs to inform Are your charts and graphs actually informing people? Can I actually make a decision from your presentation? If not, why should I or the executives care? Cool software, but...
View ArticleJoin us at the Qlik 2014 World Conference
Click image for larger view Eileen and I have been invited to attend the launch of Qlik® Sense at the Qlik 2014 conference in Orlando. As featured speakers, we are holding a session on The Accidental...
View ArticleShark Tank investments – using data to understand the Sharks
Using data from the first four seasons of the Shark Tank, Freakalytics has assembled a few fascinating insights for fans and potential entrepreneurs that may come before the Sharks in future seasons....
View ArticleFavorite charts for business analytics
I was asked by Donald Farmer of Qlik about my favorite charts. Donald is leading a keynote panel on data visualization at Qlik’s World Conference with myself, Alberto Cairo and Kaiser Fung. While I...
View ArticleThree great data visualization stories from Qlik World 2014
At the Qlik World 2014 expert data visualization panel, moderated by Donald Farmer, Donald asked each panelist to offer up one of our favorite data visualizations for inspiration and learning....
View ArticleFrom Business Intelligence to Visual AnalyticsCraft a Winning Data Strategy
Stephen McDaniel and Eileen McDaniel, Ph.D. Freakalytics, LLC Topics: Data Analysis, Visual Analytics and Business Intelligence This was originally published in the TDWI FlashPoint Newsletter in August...
View ArticleRStudio Keyboard Quick Reference by Freakalytics
At Freakalytics, we frequently use R (often referred to as RStats) in our client projects and wanted to share our success using the RStudio Interactive Development Environment (IDE) with you. So, we...
View ArticleOpen source editor for D3 data visualization
At Freakalytics, we've used the D3 data visualization library on several client projects and have been impressed with the nearly infinite set of graphing, charting and mapping possibilities....
View ArticleCommunicate Your Results, a Case Study from the7th C of The Accidental Analyst
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere. –LEE IACOCCA Engineer on the original Ford Mustang design team and CEO during Chrysler’s comeback in...
View ArticleHow long should my presentation be?
Always leave them wanting more! –P.T. Barnum Creator of "The Greatest Show On Earth!®" About our Presentation Length Calculator Creating compelling presentations that are clear and actionable are the...
View ArticleAn R function to check if you are online…
Whether you use R to access online databases in the cloud or want to scrape website data, it's always better to check if you are online before throwing numerous error and warning messages. I wrote this...
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