Dashboard Nirvana and Visual Management of Marketing Programs

View and interact with the strategic customer sales and analyst exploratory dashboards below, both hosted by tableau public. Read Eileen’s white paper, “Visual Management of Marketing Programs“, for detailed explanations on maximizing Marketing ROI with visual marketing dashboards. In this case study, we used customer demographic and sales databases from a boutique winery in combination … Read more

Webinar — Achieve Marketing Dashboard Nirvana

Practical tips for quickly building and maintaining these data insight tools Tuesday, March 2, 2010- 2:00 PM Eastern Time / 11:00 AM Pacific Time 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 … Read more

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tableau public — share your visual insights with the world!

tableau public is now available! What’s not to love? Free web hosting of your visualization and a free desktop license of tableau public, based on the award-winning, rapid data visualization tools in Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server. With tableau public, you can learn the breadth of Tableau while sharing your insights with the world on … Read more

Presidential Election Results with SAS Maps and Tile Charts

SAS 9.2 is a big leap forward in many areas. One of them is a variety of new graph types and easy access to creation in SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2. I think these two charts offer a fascinating look at the 2008 Presidential Election Results using SAS Maps and Tile Charts from the upcoming book, … Read more

Your favorite Freakalytics blog posts of 2009!

Number 6 Waterfall chart examples with detailed instructions on creating them with your own data in Tableau Waterfall Chart in Tableau and a Superior Alternative… Number 5 Do your New Year’s resolutions have you wondering where your money goes@f11 Here’s a snapshot of the average American and their spending habits How the average American spends … Read more

Tableau College Student Edition for Just $69-$99!

Learn the hottest visual analysis tool and impress your friends, your professors, your drinking buddies and even your family with incredible visual analytics from Tableau! From great data presentations to data exploration to dashboards that wow your class, get all the features of Tableau Professional edition for $69 for 6 months or $99 for 12 … Read more

Spotlighting Example in Tableau

This workbook is an example of spotlighting in Tableau. Spotlighting involves applying user rules about data values to spot certain outcomes. With Tableau it is simple to apply basic to complex rules for spotlighting. This is beyond the standard highlighting capabilities available by placing measures on the color shelf. As this example demonstrates, fairly complex … Read more

Recommended Books for Analytics and Visual Analytics

Reviews of Stephen’s latest book, “Rapid Graphs with Tableau” “A great work — this is going to be a much loved book.” Marc Rueter- Director of Sales Consulting, Tableau Software “A must read for anyone interested in Tableau. Clear explanations, practical advice and beautiful examples…” Elissa Fink – Vice President of Marketing, Tableau Software Back … Read more

Tableau Training by Freakalytics, Orlando, FL, Jan 26-28, 2010

Announcing the availability of our first Tableau Training location in 2010- sunny, warm Orlando, FL! Topics include visual analysis for presentation, data exploration and dashboard design. Tableau Certification is also available. Read the details and find other upcoming locations in 2010 at http://www.Freakalytics.com/training. Freakalytics also works with many leading organizations to present our highly-rated training … Read more

Did the super-smart (numerati) cause the near economic collapse?

This editorial highlights a fascinating yet simple theory, that super-smart people (the numerati) have created extremely complex and little understood financial instruments that helped drive us to the brink of economic ruin. These instruments originally had applications of merit that were reasonable. However, the profit potential was too large and the opportunity for application in … Read more