Ever feel like you’re drowning in a sea of Excel spreadsheets? You’re not alone. Many firms find themselves facing a common data nightmare: trying to manage millions of lines of data scattered across dozens of massive, disconnected files.When you’re dealing…
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One of the most important parts of making data-driven decisions is having easily accessible and up-to-date data available when those decisions need to be made. Rather than searching through your data for answers any time a question comes up, most…
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Power BI is a business analytics tool that packs a punch, revolutionizing the way companies analyze their data. It is a cloud-based business intelligence platform that provides a suite of tools for data visualization, reporting, and analysis. Power BI has…
Using insights generated from company data is essential when making business decisions. Having reliable data enables a company to make strategic decisions to optimize operations, track overall company performance, and observe valuable trends.Power BI has proven to be a handy tool…
Earlier this year we partnered with Square to tackle a common problem: how can Square sellers unlock more robust reporting, without hiring a full data team? While we already had a Square connector in the Panoply platform, we took this…
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Data visualization is defined as the graphical representation of information and data.Using visual elements like charts, graphs, and maps helps audiences to see and understand trends, outliers, and patterns in the data.While we may think of data visualization as a…
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In our last post, Dashboards 101, our intrepid analyst Regina was building a dashboard for her company’s management team. Regina works at a fictitious coffee delivery company named Mocha. One of Mocha’s projects is to acquire more specialty coffee houses…
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For years, Microsoft has been a leader in Gartner’s quadrant for intelligence and analytics platforms. In other words: it has a complete vision and can execute it.While Microsoft offers an extensive suite of business intelligence solutions, SSIS (SQL Server Integration…
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Regina is a data analyst at Mocha, a fictitious coffee delivery company that provides local coffeehouses specialized technology, data insights, and shared services. She has been meeting weekly with key stakeholders to define metrics that will help expand their customer…
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MongoDB’s data flexibility is a breeze for developers but can be a major headache for analysts and data scientists. Here’s how to wrangle your non-relational MongoDB data into a Tableau-friendly shape using JSON exports, the MongoDB Connector for Business Intelligence,…
The most difficult thing about choosing the right analytics tool is creating an apples-to-apples comparison. If you’ve combed through multiple reviews and they only added to your doubts, we’re here to help. Both Tableau and Power BI are great business intelligence…
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So much of the life of an analyst relies on the ability to quickly and reliably transform our SQL queries into impactful visualizations. While this may sound trivial to outsiders, analysts know this is often anything but straightforward. Every company,…
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