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 ...

Being Data-Driven

How to go from raw data to dashboards in just 10 simple steps

By Darcy Lloyd on January 24, 2024

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 ...

BI and Data Visualization

Power BI Best Practices

By Noah Edis on May 4, 2023

Using insights generated from company data is essential when making business decisions. Having reliable data enables a company to make strategic decisions to optimize ...

Data Stack

Top 6 Power BI Benefits For Your Business

By Gift “Gigi” Kenneth on June 1, 2022

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 ...

Product

Analyzing Square Data with Panoply: No Code Required

By Alon Brody on April 27, 2022

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 ...

Being Data-Driven

History of Data Visualization: Pivotal Moments Analysts Can Learn From

By Allen Hillery on November 5, 2021

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.

Data Analysis

How to Analyze DynamoDB Data in Power BI

By Roel Peters on July 13, 2021

Regina is a data analyst at Mocha, a fictitious coffee delivery company that provides local coffeehouses specialized technology, data insights, and shared services. She ...

BI and Data Visualization

Dashboards 101: Basics Of A Great Dashboard

By Allen Hillery on May 10, 2021

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 Analysis

How to Analyze MongoDB Data in Tableau

By Michelle Hoogenhout on May 3, 2021

The most difficult thing about choosing the right analytics tool is creating an apples-to-apples comparison.

BI and Data Visualization

Tableau vs. Power BI: A Battle of Business Intelligence Heavyweights

By Yulia Lukashina on April 20, 2021

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 ...

BI and Data Visualization

Write SQL and Get Charts: Comparing SQL Visualization Tools

By Taylor Brownlow on March 25, 2021

Last Friday, Chartio announced today that they’re joining Atlassian and that Chartio won't be usable as a BI tool outside of Atlassian starting on March 1, 2022.

BI and Data Visualization

How to Approach Your Chartio Migration

By Christopher Nordman on March 5, 2021

Chartio recently announced that they’ve joined Atlassian, the company behind robust tools like JIRA and Confluence. That's great news for Chartio, but what does it mean ...

BI and Data Visualization

Top Chartio Alternatives

By Andrew Zola on March 4, 2021

If you're not monitoring your online store data and tweaking it accordingly, you'll probably find yourself left behind. Shopify's built-in reports are simple, ...

BI and Data Visualization

Top Shopify Analytics Tools

By Andrew Zola on February 13, 2021

Power BI and MySQL. The beloved BI tool and dependable database go together like peanut butter and jelly...or data and analysis. To help make that powerful partnership ...

BI and Data Visualization

How to Sync MySQL Data to Power BI

By Shaun Kahler on February 1, 2021

You've got valuable data. But it's useless if you don't use it. A key piece in unlocking the power in your data is using an excellent Business Intelligence (BI) tool. BI ...

BI and Data Visualization

Top BI Tools Of 2021—And How To Choose The Right One

By Adam Murphy on January 22, 2021

Klipfolio is a robust cloud-based BI/dashboarding tool developed especially for small and medium-sized businesses. The platform's primary goal is to enable data ...

BI and Data Visualization

Top Klipfolio Alternatives: Tools to Manage Your Marketing Data

By Andrew Zola on January 19, 2021

You know the drill: Sometime in mid-December, a tsunami of planning will crash into your company as teams frantically scramble to figure out their initiatives and KPIs ...

Being Data-Driven

How to Use Dashboards to Guide Your Startup's 2021 Planning

By Anders Schneiderman on December 10, 2020

MongoDB is fantastic...and challenging. This database is popular among developers due to its flexibility, but getting your data out of Mongo and into a BI tool isn’t a ...

Databases

MongoDB Business Intelligence: Connector Challenges and Alternatives

By Alon Brody on December 6, 2020

Data provides the foundation for innovation and enhanced efficiency. But anyone who's worked with it will tell you that it can be quite challenging. Without the ...

Data Stack

Top 5 Domo Alternatives: Capabilities and Usability Go Head-to-Head

By Andrew Zola on December 4, 2020

Data is the underlying force that drives modern marketing campaigns. But if you're an agency running multiple promotions across platforms, the data aggregation process ...

ETL/ELT

Top 5 Supermetrics Alternatives: Balancing Ease Of Use & Cost

By Andrew Zola on November 19, 2020

The speed, flexibility and ease of setup of NoSQL-style databases have all contributed to the rapid rise in popularity of MongoDB in recent years. Despite its advantages ...

Data Analysis

How to analyze MongoDB data in Power BI

By Peter Weinberg on January 23, 2020

At Panoply, we get a lot of customers who are looking to use Grafana to analyze data stored in DynamoDB instances. If you’ve ever looked into this, you’ve probably seen ...

Data Analysis

How to analyze DynamoDB data in Grafana

By Peter Weinberg on December 23, 2019

Ecommerce is getting more competitive every day as big players like Amazon and Alibaba consume more markets and scrappy D2C players try to disrupt them. It is impossible ...

BI and Data Visualization

Building Shopify Dashboards in Tableau, Power BI and Google Data Studio

By Adam Christian Amistad on December 5, 2019

There are so many different types of business intelligence (BI) tools in the market now, such as Looker, Mode, Tableau, Periscope, etc. As the go-to-data-person at my ...

BI and Data Visualization

Tableau vs. Mode: Comparing Pricing, Integrations and Deployment

By Ka Hou Sio on June 25, 2019

We recently worked with Aron Clymer, CEO of the data consulting firm Data Clymer to show you how you can consolidate all of your Shopify ecommerce data from any number ...

BI and Data Visualization

Building a Shopify Ecommerce Dashboard with Looker

By Trevor Fox on February 5, 2019