“A Week in the Life of an Analyst Rock Star: Using Analytics to Dramatically Boost Bottom Lines” You can download the examples discussed here (Adobe PDF file). Once you have the examples downloaded, click here to listen to the recorded webcast (download as an MP3 file). The case studies and topics discussed on this webcast … Read more
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Attend hands-on Tableau training taught by the author of the first book on Tableau, Stephen McDaniel. Please join us in Seattle this September, New York or Washington, DC this October, or London or Dallas, TX this November. Register early and save $100-$300 (US course locations). Our London training seminar is being offered in conjunction with … Read more
Implement and practice these seven habits to make your work relevant, timely and actionable for the business and your customers! Collect, discuss and understand the questions that matter for your customers and business owners. Working with the business, determine how valuable the various questions are and whether they can be acted upon. How … Read more
This was presented at the Tableau Conference 2009. It is about the tremendous opportunities to leverage customer segmentation and lifetime value data at the individual customer level. Click here for the presentation. Identifying segments for every customer can unlock long-hidden value for your marketing team. Combining this information with Tableau creates a simple means for … Read more
It is frustrating to see valuable information hidden in well-meaning, but uninformative charts. FlowingData.com referenced just such an article, “How The Average U.S. Consumer Spends Their Paycheck“. The chart in the original article at Visual Economics is indeed attractive. Unfortunately, it is also very hard to understand. Key data relationships that should jump off … Read more
Here is a screenshot from my iPhone of my recently posted S&P composite dashboard with tableau public! It’s truly amazing that the new tableau public product works wonderfully with every major desktop web browser. However, I was surprised to view tableau public from an iPhone. Even more surprising, I could use much of the interactivity … Read more
Stephen’s latest book is a brilliant interplay of simple to advanced statistical concepts with powerful visual equivalents and methods. It offers wonderful guidance with great examples around visualizing time series, correlations and multivariate analysis problems. It will have a major impact for many years to come in changing how business analysts work, think and improve … Read more
Economic Indicators and S&P Composite Returns from 1901-2008 A Dashboard to Explore Past, Present and Future Results When creating a dashboard, two critical questions to ask include, “what are the right metrics” and “what collection of graphs will optimize exploration and understanding from a complex relationship between multiple metrics”? This example uses historic economic and … Read more
Read the full presentation here, “Overvalued Software Products and Undervalued Analysts? The Value of a Great Analyst in Business Analytics” I recently pondered the value of a great analyst to a mid-sized public company (revenues around $1-2 billion.) Based on my experience at multiple companies, I estimate the productivity, typical project benefits, and costs … Read more