Let’s face it: in the daily world of work, you often are asked to provide an answer to a new problem in less than a day. Of course, your boss tends to forget about the other three project deadlines you are currently facing, so you really have only 10 or 20 minutes to squeeze in … Read more
#5 Examining data over time (7 ways with Netflix stock prices) #4 Bullet charts & enhancements: making Stephen Few’s invention even better Share the power of R shiny apps across the entire team with YakDataThe team at Freakalytics has built YakData brightRserver, our new cloud platform.Securely share R shiny appsDevelop R shiny appsAll on one … Read more
Selecting a “safe” stock with a solid dividend is quite popular in the current economic climate. The traditional “safe” investments are paying extremely low interest rates while many American companies are growing revenues while paying out strong dividend yields (4% and higher) that exceed those of government bonds. In late December, I selected a set … Read more
We are always excited to see new people using visual analytics with data in the public interest. After seeing some great poverty analysis work from the Utah Department of Workforce Services, we wanted to share some ideas that might provide inspiration to them. Here is the original chart Share the power of R shiny apps … Read more
A nice article on Tableau and visual analytics appeared in Fortune magazine this week. “Former Pixar engineer Pat Hanrahan has found a new calling organizing and analyzing business data, and bringing the information to life. Mr. Incredible: Pat Hanrahan in his lab at Stanford How many enterprise software executives can brag that they have been … Read more
This review of our 4 day training series was written on LinkedIn by a recent public training attendee, Danyelle. She works at the US Department of Health and Human Services as a Senior Data Advisor. I had the great pleasure of speaking with her outside of the class and was fascinated to hear how … Read more
The following article features Tableau 6 Reference lines, bands or distributions may be added to your views to emphasize particular values or areas that may be useful in interpreting your data. In particular, when comparing multiple groups or categories of data, reference lines and bands provide immediate feedback on the overall differences between the groups. … Read more
Chris Stolte, Chief Development Officer at Tableau introduced Six senior developers on stage for a preview of Tableau 7. Chris Stolte Tableau’s mission is help people see and understand their data. How much simpler can it get@f26 Tableau was started while Share the power of R shiny apps across the entire team with YakDataThe team … Read more
Who said that analytics can’t be a fun way to start your day@f25 Tableau animated our dashboard at https://freakalytics.com/snp-pub-freak/ and set it to the music of Journey! Awesome job Tableau and a great way to kick-off the conference! Click here to watch the video! Share the power of R shiny apps across the entire team … Read more
The following article features Tableau 6 Power Whether you are exploring your data for new insights, answering specific questions or even deciding what questions to ask, Tableau gives you unprecedented control to investigate, communicate and take action with the valuable information hidden in your data! Tableau has it all – a wide variety of options … Read more