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 can’t say that I have a favorite chart, I can definitely state that I often rely heavily on three chart types for much of … Read more
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 Analyst®, a reliable framework for building analyses to answer real-world business questions. I will also be on an expert … Read more
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 what about the business? It’s easier to obsess over the complex but oh so cool software features than to truly understand … Read more
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 for over 30 years, where he became famous for creating an austere aesthetic while focusing on user-friendliness. His philosophy is summed up … Read more
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 the basic functionality so you can get started. For more advanced dashboards, visit www.Freakalytics.com/examples. Dashboard Audience VP of Sales at a … Read more
Detailed cost comparisons across all seven visual analytics offerings at PowerTrip Analytics™ pricing review tables. Read individual product details, highlights and examples: Microstrategy Analytics Desktop, SAP Lumira, Tibco Spotfire, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau Desktop, QlikView, and SAS Visual Analytics. Share the power of R shiny apps across the entire team with YakDataThe team at Freakalytics … Read more
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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 to an independent group of data professionals. When we noticed it was mistakenly promoted as “Accidental Analysts: What are they doing TO my data?”, … Read more
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 science, business intelligence and visual analytics? We understand! Each week, I read through hundreds of stories in this space and share the five (okay, this … Read more
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 science, business intelligence and visual analytics? We understand! Here’s a top new story worth reading and that we considered noteworthy enough to add … Read more