BI & REPORTING
Up and Running with Power BI Metrics
Everyone has goals. How many of us have proof that we are achieving our goals? It's a method by which we can track our success and where we need to improve. We have personal goals, team goals, and organizational goals. However, outside of a gut feeling, how many...
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The Future of Analytics in Higher Education with Artificial Intelligence
The future is sooner than you would have expected – it is now. Contrary to concerns about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in everyday activities, ethical AI can enhance a balanced, accessible, scalable, and inclusive learning system. With the increasingly limited...
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How Data Visualization Made A Breakthrough During COVID-19
We live in a time where it’s not only important to have access to qualified data - the representation of that data is equally important. Data visualization has become a critical element of the current COVID-19 pandemic. It’s been used as the main tool for spreading...
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Benefits of Mobile Business Intelligence For Your Business
There are currently 3.50 billion smartphone users around the world. With it, the possibilities of developing successful mobile BI strategies for your business are endless. Here are some of the most relevant benefits of Mobile BI for your business: 1. Business On...
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Automated Reporting vs. BI: Which Do You Need?
Growing or even maintaining a business requires careful attention to key metrics. Sales, new customers, returns, downtime, and other data points can vary based on industry, but every company has something they need to keep track of to function, thrive, and compete in...
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Data Science vs. Data Analytics: What’s the Difference?
Improvements in data collection and storage have allowed companies to prevent fraud, streamline operations, and gain new insights into consumers. However, implementing new measurement systems requires a team of professionals who can create software, run programs, and...
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The Power of Big Data and AI in the Fight Against COVID-19
The emergence of a novel coronavirus in December 2019 has had the medical community on edge. Public health officials around the world have faced an uphill battle in treating current cases and preventing the further spread of the virus. The 2002 SARS outbreak, and...
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COVID-19: Navigating the Ship
Background: COVID-19 On January 30th, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially labeled the COVID-19 virus as a “public health emergency of international concern”. In the weeks that followed, the world watched as the virus grew and began to spread across...
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Yes, people need training on data visualization software, too. Here are 3 times when you need training.
These days, data visualization software, like Microsoft Power BI and TIBCO Spotfire, has become so easy to use, that you might not consider training. Who could blame you? So why do you need Spotfire training or Power BI training? As intuitive as these tools are,...
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Master Reporting & Visualization with Advanced Tableau Training
Tableau is a highly popular business intelligence and data visualization tool. Used by most of the Fortune 500 companies to derive valuable insights from data, Tableau has become indispensable for organizations, regardless of the industry vertical. Businesses using...
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The Power of Power BI
By now, regardless of what industry you’re in, you’ve likely heard about the power and insight that data offers. Nearly every company in existence has something to be gained from their data, but it won’t do you any good if you can’t make sense of it! One dynamic tool...
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The New & Improved TIBCO Spotfire X Interface
TIBCO just released the new version of its visual analytics tool, Spotfire X, aka Spotfire 10. With a jump from the Spotfire 7.14 version, the new version features facilitated streaming analytics, data wrangling, and AI-based insights. But more importantly, Spotfire...
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New Mapbox Features brought to Power BI
If you’ve been around analytics long enough, you know how important it is to keep up with what tools and services are available in the space. The data driven needs of businesses are constantly evolving, and while it may be the software company’s job to deliver...
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TIBCO Enhances its Visualization Tool with Spotfire X
TIBCO will soon release a new version of its Spotfire platform with Spotfire X. This version is expected to make things easier and improve integration with other tools, particularly with new TIBCO products. When was Spotfire X announced? TIBCO introduced Spotfire X...
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Qlik View, a Highly Flexible BI Tool that helps to Analyze and Access Data in an Intuitive Manner
Businesses are swimming in a pool of data and to fish out business intelligence, they need the right tool at the right time to steer their ship to success. They facilitate improved decision making by enabling users to access and analyze data in an efficient and...
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Data Visualization Tools: Make Insights Visible to the Human Brain
All the data in the world would become useless if people were unable to read it. This is where data visualization helps. Data visualization displays data in a manner that allows people to effectively gain insights from it. Today, data visualization has become a vital...
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Enhancing Spotfire reports using external JavaScript libraries
Spotfire has an extremely good customization capability. Almost every single functionality in Spotfire can be extended to meet the complex organizational reporting, analytical and scientific requirements in place today. This article will outline a few examples to...
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Introduction to Power BI for Data Visualization
Traditional business intelligence involves using historical data to derive current performance insights. Many companies today benefit from analyzing this intelligence to make predictions about future business operations. There are three components of business...
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XBRL Automation for Financial Analysis
There is a common misconception about the costs associated with structuring data for financial filings to regulators. Companies assume that converting financial reports to XBRL a high effort / low value expense. But the lack of perceived value is due to their...
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Power BI Tutorial: How To Create Bump Charts
In this Power BI tutorial we'll go over the steps to create bump charts, which are a visually appealing way to view a rank over time. Although not native to Power BI, bump charts can be created using the RANKX function in DAX in a line chart and with a few tricks up...
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