CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Business analysts (BAs) are responsible for bridging the gap between IT and the business using data analytics to assess processes, determine requirements, and deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to executives and stakeholders. Business analyst skills The business analyst position requires both hard skills and soft skills.

IT

BA Learnings

JANUARY 23, 2024

Being a business analyst is a journey filled with challenges and triumphs, where the treasure is not just data but insights that transform businesses. Remember, while it could be tempting to produce really extensive, detailed reports, something any BA is proud of, the objective is to enable change through your insights.

Business Analysis

Depict Data Studio

APRIL 10, 2023

Visualizing data in charts, graphs, dashboards, and infographics is one of the most powerful strategies for getting your numbers out of your spreadsheets and into real-world conversations. But it can be overwhelming to get started with data visualization. If so, this step-by-step data visualization guide is for you!

Visualization

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Amazon Redshift is the most widely used data warehouse in the cloud, best suited for analyzing exabytes of data and running complex analytical queries. Amazon QuickSight is a fast business analytics service to build visualizations, perform ad hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data.

Data Warehouse

Depict Data Studio

MARCH 4, 2021

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this from workshop participants. I’m normally very zen about data visualization. Here’s my calm before the storm selfie: Inside the Depict Data Studio World Headquarters. But with some behind-the-scenes editing, we can still make powerful visualizations inside Excel.”.

Visualization

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In today’s data-driven landscape, managing and analyzing vast amounts of data, especially logs, is crucial for organizations to derive insights and make informed decisions. We recently announced a new capacity level of 30TB for time series data per account per AWS Region.

Testing

AWS Big Data

JANUARY 31, 2023

In this post, you will learn how you can use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to build a log ingestion pipeline to send VPC flow logs to Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. Kinesis Data Firehose is a popular service that delivers streaming data from over 20 AWS services to over 15 analytical and observability tools such as OpenSearch Serverless.

Dashboards

Perceptual Edge

APRIL 9, 2019

Many of them cover topics that are relevant to my work in data sensemaking and data visualization, and most of them are quite good, but only a few are extraordinary. Until recently, I taught annual data visualization workshops in Utrecht for several years. I spend a great deal of time reading books.

Visualization

datapine

JANUARY 14, 2020

To optimize your CS offerings you need access to the right data, and this is where customer service reports come into play. Customer service reports extract invaluable information and insights from customer service data. Get our guide to learn about the power of customer service reporting! What Is A Customer Service Report?

Reporting

Data Science 101

JUNE 10, 2019

Getting your first data science job might be challenging, but it’s possible to achieve this goal with the right resources. Before jumping into a data science career , there are a few questions you should be able to answer: How do you break into the profession? What skills do you need to become a data scientist? Data Scientists.

Data Science

AWS Big Data

JULY 6, 2023

Extracting time series on given geographical coordinates from satellite or Numerical Weather Prediction data can be challenging because of the volume of data and of its multidimensional nature (time, latitude, longitude, height, multiple parameters). It has not been specifically designed for heavy data transformation tasks.

Machine Learning

AWS Big Data

APRIL 24, 2024

EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it straightforward for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug analytics applications written in PySpark, Python, and Scala. Now you can use a dataset and visualize your data. option("header", "true").option("inferSchema",

Interactive

Depict Data Studio

JANUARY 5, 2021

She is also the founder of the Sketchnote Academy and author of The Art of Visual Notetaking. . Sketchnoting is also called: Visual notetaking Graphic recording Visual facilitation Graphic facilitation. While the data, pictures and information might change, it was still the same project… year after year,” she said.

Visualization

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

Facts are the numbers, the data. So, you make any story about the impact it’s having on people, not on the technology, the data, or the change. Illustrate what you’re trying to get across so people can visualize it. Write the story details down in bullet form: where/when/who/what happened? That’s where you focus.

Finance

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 2, 2022

Facts are the numbers, the data. So, you make any story about the impact it’s having on people, not on the technology, the data, or the change. Illustrate what you’re trying to get across so people can visualize it. Write the story details down in bullet form: where/when/who/what happened? That’s where you focus.

Finance

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 12, 2023

You can run analytics workloads at any scale with automatic scaling that resizes resources in seconds to meet changing data volumes and processing requirements. AWS Step Functions is a serverless orchestration service that enables developers to build visual workflows for applications as a series of event-driven steps.

Big Data

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2024

IT leaders and CIOs have also long recognized the power of storytelling, but only recently has the phenomenon become formalized with many saying they’ve attended workshops or seminars on the topic with the express intention of improving their sense of narrative and power to communicate and persuade. Everybody loves a good story,” he says.

Consulting

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 8, 2023

OpenSearch is an open-source search and analytics suite that enables you to ingest, store, analyze, and visualize full text and log data. In this post, you will learn how to use Okta as your IdP and integrate it with OpenSearch Serverless to securely manage your users and groups for secure access to your data.

Metadata

AWS Big Data

MARCH 15, 2023

Processing and analyzing log and Internet of Things (IoT) data can be challenging, especially when dealing with large volumes of real-time data. Elastic and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose are two powerful tools that can help make this process easier. Integrating Elastic and Kinesis Data Firehose is a straightforward process.

Dashboards

AWS Big Data

AUGUST 3, 2023

With the rapid growth of technology, more and more data volume is coming in many different formats—structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. Data analytics on operational data at near-real time is becoming a common need. a new version of AWS Glue that accelerates data integration workloads in AWS.

Data Lake

Juice Analytics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

I’m a long-time advocate for adding specificity into data presentation as a way to humanize your message. Specific examples are a way to zoom in to the details while connecting your audience to the big picture ideas. The goal was to use data to drive the discussion on health disparities in our local Nashville community.

Uncertainty

Sisense

MARCH 18, 2019

As part of our continuing tech investments, CTSI-Global decided to incorporate modern BI technology to help shippers perform advanced forecasting and modeling through elegant and robust visualizations on top of the centralized shipping data we aggregate. Data Complexity. Data Complexity. Automation and Integration.

Analytics

AWS Big Data

JUNE 21, 2023

It comprises a search engine, OpenSearch, which delivers low-latency search and aggregations, OpenSearch Dashboards, a visualization and dashboarding tool, and a suite of plugins that provide advanced capabilities like alerting, fine-grained access control, observability, security monitoring, and vector storage and processing.

Metrics

Sisense

MAY 22, 2019

But inside every lost account is the data you need to improve and retain future customers. With a customer success dashboard, you can visualize the composition of that churn rate by any demographic you track in your CRM. Here’s where your CS dashboard has helped you make decisions based on data. Who Stays and Who Goes?

Analytics

Depict Data Studio

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

I started out as an evaluator and I always loved the data viz side of my job. Reasons Evaluators Should Be Learning About Data Visualization and Reporting. Resources Someone Just Starting Out in Evaluation (and Others) Can Use to Get Proficient in Data Visualization. It’s very detailed and thorough.”

Reporting

AWS Big Data

APRIL 18, 2023

It automatically provisions and scales the underlying resources to deliver fast data ingestion and query responses for even the most demanding and unpredictable workloads. With OpenSearch Serverless, you can configure SAML to enable users to access data through OpenSearch Dashboards using an external SAML identity provider (IdP).

Dashboards

Depict Data Studio

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

On her podcast, we talked about my unexpected shift from being an evaluator to a data visualization designer, along with my tips getting started working for yourself or teaching online. That way, each school can view their own data? My specialty, though, is data visualization. Watch Our Conversation.

Visualization

Depict Data Studio

JANUARY 12, 2021

I addressed this question on the Data Strategy Show with Samir Sharma. Samir Sharma is a data strategy and analytics leader, CEO and Founder of datazuum. He has a history of helping data executives and leaders craft and execute their data strategies. Challenges Faced by Companies Trying to Visualize Their Data.

Data Strategy

Depict Data Studio

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Here are my favorite data visualization resources from the past year. 6 Data Cleaning Steps to Save You Millions : Hudson Kelley teaches us how to check for duplicates; check for changes in the survey instrument; check for outliers; use counts; recode variables with IF statements; and combine datasets with lookups.

Visualization

AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Customers rely on data from different sources such as mobile applications, clickstream events from websites, historical data, and more to deduce meaningful patterns to optimize their products, services, and processes. Apache Airflow and Snowflake have emerged as powerful technologies for data management and analysis.

Data Processing

Depict Data Studio

MARCH 2, 2023

4 Levels of Excel Vizardry I’ve taught data visualization in Excel a dozen different ways over the years. I can’t get into the nitty-gritty details hacking Excel to make population pyramids… if someone’s never heard of a population pyramid before. Are you drowning in the deep end of Excel? We start easy.

Visualization

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The bulk of these uncertainties do not revolve around what software package to pick or whether to migrate to the cloud; they revolve around how exactly to apply these powerful technologies and data with precision and control to achieve meaningful improvements in the shortest time possible.

Data-driven

Depict Data Studio

APRIL 27, 2020

With intentional editing, you can design visualizations that inform and inspire. ” But the general public is craving clear, reliable visuals. Media outlets are reporting that their COVID-19 data visualizations are their most viewed pages. Clear, concise visuals matter more than ever. New for 2020!

Visualization

Depict Data Studio

JANUARY 29, 2024

Calendar Simple Spreadsheets , our data analysis course: March 4 – 7, 2024 from 1 – 4:30 pm Eastern each day. Here’s more info about my workshops, which can be held virtually or in-person. In the past, groups have opted to cover qualitative dataviz, maps, before-after graphs, and longitudinal data.

Dashboards

BI-Survey

OCTOBER 4, 2024

It enables natural language interaction not just with the BI platform itself but also with the underlying data. These agents aim to support not only end users but also power users and business analysts in tasks such as creating visualizations, reports, dashboards, and generating “stories” (compelling data storytelling reports).

Marketing

IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

There are still not enough data experts out there, even as the world of data evolves rapidly. We started the Summer School for Data Leaders five years ago to create a community for data experts to share ideas and relate to people facing similar challenges. Data ethics is top of mind. The community is growing.

Data Strategy

Domino Data Lab

JUNE 2, 2019

Co-chair Paco Nathan provides highlights of Rev 2 , a data science leaders summit. We held Rev 2 May 23-24 in NYC, as the place where “data science leaders and their teams come to learn from each other.” Nick Elprin, CEO and co-founder of Domino Data Lab. First item on our checklist: did Rev 2 address how to lead data teams?

Data Science