State of Washington government salaries from 2010, search all 160,000 employees

State of Washington government salary information is now available at WashingtonGovernmentSalaries.com. The dashboard is fully searchable by agency, job title and employee using a dashboard developed by Freakalytics and hosted by Tableau Public. Both companies are based in Seattle, Washington. Freakalytics specializes in expert, in-person analytics training and popular books on analytics. Tableau is a … Read more

iPad & tablet competitors profit estimates through 2015 – building on Gartner unit estimates

GigaOM’s recent article on the growth of the iPad and overall tablet-related OS market inspired me to take their forecasts one step further- actual profit estimates through 2015 per major player in the article.   My forecasts are indeed rough, but attribute higher and lower profits to the various vendors based on the nature of … Read more

Buy a copy of The Accidental Analyst at a book seminar

Please use this link only if you are buying a copy of the book from us in person. All other requests will be refunded. If we aren’t in the same place with you at a seminar with books on hand, please go here to order it on Amazon. To buy 1 copy $29.00 USD2 copies … Read more

Tableau file types- purpose, features and limitations

TWB – Tableau WorkBook file 1) A text file, to be more specific, an XML file, which is a highly structured text file that contains a) Data connection information b) View layout definitions c) And thumbnails or snapshots of each view   TWBX — Tableau packaged WorkBook file 1) Everything contained in a Tableau WorkBook … Read more

Dashboards podcast for journalists- ideas & examples with Journalytics

Episode Overview: Hosted by Journalytics, we discuss the utilities and pleasantries of Data Visualization and Dashboards. During our conversation we discuss several specific examples of dashboards in the news. Click here to listen. Share the power of R shiny apps across the entire team with YakDataThe team at Freakalytics has built YakData brightRserver, our new … Read more

Microstrategy stock price relative to IPO and historic low-point

        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 dedicated, secure and powerful platform. Subscribe and keep in touch with us! Email address: Leave this field empty … Read more

Stephen Few versus David McCandless- we should leave playing doctor to the children

Here is my response to Nathan’s article, “Business intelligence vs. infotainment“, on Flowing Data.  Nathan’s article was in response to Stephen’s earlier article on Perceptual Edge, “Teradata, David McCandless, and yet another detour for analytics“.           We should leave “playing doctor” to the children In considering this great debate, perhaps we should … Read more

MIT Sloan Review, don’t allow pies to obscure the “New Intelligence” you hope to share

I was very interested to read the survey results from MIT about data access challenges facing business analysts. The article states that “The New Intelligent Enterprise… will allow you to do some immediate benchmarking – and see how your organization is doing in relation to your peers.” While I am certain the data from this … Read more